Damo, where’s me lighter?

Another Short Dictator
2 min readDec 15, 2023

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A narc cycle in flannelette

Crikey!

I’ve got a little lady in a house dress

and I think I can spin her any old shit and if I think I’ve been caught out I’ll spin her and spin her like the dead chook she is,

until I’ve flooded her,

like a ride-on or a blower,

she’ll blow up

then fade away

that’s what she thinks, anyway

she thinks I’ve got that other chick,

the one I’ve imagined

to be better to me in all the ways

oh wait :(

that one’s just casting out a net,

so I’ll see how the wife is doing today

I feel something, I’ve got a touch of the sight you know

something’s brewing, something big,

bad ju-ju

I couldn’t have summoned it or created it

I am a leaf,

at the whim of others

so I’ll circle the drain

stir my coffee

and sit back in my broken chair

alone,

I have nothing to look forward to

the wife has let me down again,

not doing the one thing I asked

she won’t ever admit she’s wrong

but I’ve caught her out,

she thinks I don’t know,

so I’ll talk over her and do my pointed laugh

and tell her that

of course she wouldn’t understand

I don’t have anyone else on the radar

I’m a better person than that

I don’t have anyone else on the radar

I’m so alone

I don’t have anyone else on the radar

I just got home

I didn’t push her, I just told the truth

she wouldn’t listen to me,

so I just kept saying it

she’s off having a great time without me

and I’m stuck here,

alone,

I just got home

oh look, yeah I was a bit of an arsehole before

but when the wife left

I was destroyed, you know?

I was lonely when we were together

and she was mean to me

I was a bit of an arsehole

but she could blow up,

she would eviscerate me

it made me really insecure,

I need someone to really love me, you know?

because I have anxiety

I need weed when I clock off,

booze and my mates around me

I work really hard

it makes Mum proud

that I work like a dog

I don’t get any time

I crash

it’s the anxiety

I’m so hurt,

she keeps saying I’m making it all about me

but she’s not even caring!

I just want her to want me around

my wife thanks me

for all the special things I do for her

I just got home

I need my wife,

to suckle me

I told her and told her what I wanted,

and she never listened

I’m so alone

I just got home

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Another Short Dictator

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