Cuckoo

Cuckoo

Coming to a town near you

Heading out to pastures new

City dwellers looking to

Find a place to cuckoo cuckoo

They found one quite recently

Just across the road to me

A den of vulnerability

Housing temporarily

Someone with a vein to feed

A twenty year old gone to seed

A sad looking boy indeed

Previously a child in need

They recruited him to be

A runner for their company

Operating endlessly

Where there’s no CCTV

In the street outside my door

Seems an easy place to score

Their antics the police ignore

Due to cuts response is poor

So they get away with it

We put up with all the shit

That goes with living opposite

A house of people desperate

Burglaries in broad day light

Not a police patrol in spite

Of dealers dealing in plain sight

Operating day and night

I try to keep an open view

I’ve made small talk with a few

Once I shared a word or two

With a young offender who

Sounded like a needy bloke

Hanging out for smack or coke

He wanted money for a smoke

I told him that I was broke

He told me he’d been inside

I felt paranoid he’d spied

Window s I’d left open wide

Locks to break an easy ride

Two days later he was dead

An overdose a neighbour said

Now a new ones’ in his stead

Another by addiction led

Coming to a town near you

Heading out to pastures new

City dwellers looking to

Find a place to cuckoo cuckoo