KAMIKAZE COURIER

Who is that hero who saves parcels in distress;
A brave knight in pure white(ish) armour dressed,
Who speeds so fearlessly to a delivery address?
That's just the Kamikaze Courier from Clapham.

Who is that noble soul upon his trusty steed;
His visor closed against the urban battlefield
Of main roads and of minors all at suicidal speed?
That's just the Kamikaze Courier from Clapham.

Who is that pillock who just wheelied from the lights,
And cut between the old man and the pram on zebra stripes,
Then swerved around that car that was still indicating Right?
That's just the Kamikaze Courier from Clapham.

Who is that shit who passed the school at eighty-five,
Who reached a ton and couldn't read the Slow Trucks Turning sign,
Then hit the refuse truck as it reversed out of its drive?
That was the Kamikaze Courier, quite flattened.

Andrew Starling


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