I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock’n roll.
ADRIAN MITCHELLI hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock’n roll.
ADRIAN MITCHELLThe man who believes in giraffes would swallow anything.
ADRIAN MITCHELLAnd the BMA sent a writ my wayWith the very first leper I cured.
ADRIAN MITCHELLMost people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.
ADRIAN MITCHELLWhen I am sad and wearyWhen I think all hope has goneWhen I walk along High HolbornI think of you with nothing on
ADRIAN MITCHELLBlake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.
ADRIAN MITCHELLThere have always been poets who performed.
ADRIAN MITCHELLI would have walked on the waterBut I wasn’t fully insured.
ADRIAN MITCHELLYou put your bombers in, you put your conscience out.
ADRIAN MITCHELLLovers lie around in itBroken glass is found in itGrassI like that stuff.
ADRIAN MITCHELLYou take the human being and you twist it all about So scrub my skin with women Chain my tongue with whisky Stuff my nose with garlic Coat my eyes with butter Fill my ears with silver Stick my legs in plaster Tell me lies about Vietnam.
ADRIAN MITCHELLI want to speak, to sing to total strangers. It’s my way of talking to the world.
ADRIAN MITCHELLI was run over by the truth one day.Ever since the accident I’ve walked this way.
ADRIAN MITCHELLWritten poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.
ADRIAN MITCHELLPoetry is an extra hand. It can caress or tickle. It can clench and fight.
ADRIAN MITCHELLI use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music.
ADRIAN MITCHELL