Immortal
When I was immortal, I smoked cigarettes Roll-ups without filters, a pack of B&H Crashing the ash thirty times a day, with yellowed fingers But that was when I was immortal When I was immortal I ate full fat butter And melted cheese on my egg on toast, Ate pies with chips, finished a meal with chocolate and biscuits And stayed as slender as a length of string But that was when I was immortal When I was immortal, I drank alcohol Red wine and white, beer and brandy, cider and vodka, whisky and dry I drank until I couldn’t see, couldn’t stand, couldn’t keep it in But still thought I could dance But that was when I was immortal When I was immortal, I rode the bus in full make-up In the broadest of daylight. I paraded the streets in androgynous, gothic splendour Confusing the elderly, angering the ordinary I had sex casually, frequently, anonymously, indiscriminately Almost anywhere, with almost anyone But that was when I was immortal I don’t remember when I s...