ODE TO NEWCASTLE

Here's a po-hem I wrote last week in readiness to celebrate my inaugural DENISE'S MONTHLY show (to be held in the upstairs room at the Brewery) underneath the Queens Wharf Tower, seen in my hand on all my merch...

 

ODE TO NEWCASTLE

Nobbys shines its beacon

The cathedral is our palace

I love this city, warts & all

Our tower is a phallus

Out there's no Sydney Harbour

We have no rock like Alice

But we have something they don't have

Our tower is a phallus

Europe is stunning, so worldly, so old

And everything's bigger in Dallas

But show me another place on this fine earth

That agreed to erect a large phallus

Monaco has gambling

Now I don't mean to sound callous

But London Bridge just pales, you see

Our tower is a phallus

Rio has nightlife, fine music

Please understand there's no malice

For though far abroad there are wonders galore

No-one else has a bloody big phallus

A thousand years hence, through the rubble

When gone are all traces of brick

Like a phoenix emerging from Newcastle's ashes

Will be, standing proud, our big phallus

Newcastle our hearts do lie here

Say it proud with me, raise up your chalice

We love this city, warts & all

Our tower is A PHALLUS!