Shirking Class Hero

Thanks be to Margaret, I'm trained supremely well

In how to dally, dawdle, doss and dwell

With a biro, a giro and a bicycle

Through the summer of '84 I pedalled

You learn so swift how to shape the time dumped on your hands

While being measured lesser than any real working man

Leaving school over-qualified

To be economically vilified

Shafted, shunted, shunned and shamed and crucified

Costa-del-Dole tan worn with pride

In my possession the teeniest tiniest crumb of hash

Cheap sunglasses

A Penguin Classic paperback

And a flask

A Seeker on the Path

[Canal towpath]

There's room at the top they are telling you still

For debt crushed students and the mentally ill

There's room at the top they are telling you still

For zero-houred and the terminally ill

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