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Morrissey and the Hunchback

Are we in accord?
Are we ready to record?

She went
shoeless in Salford for Morrissey.
She went
shoeless in Salford—
shoeless in Salford for Morrissey:
that’s what she always said;
you never really knew what she meant.

She had the look of Edith Sitwell about her—
the frail bones and intricacies of a goldfinch.
She was a hunchback.
She was a hunchback.
She was a hunchback.
She was a hunchback.

She was the exception to the rule:
shunned;
spurned;
a praeternatural phenomenon in a
shabby comprehensive school.
“My nan’s a hedge-mumper,” she often used to say.
“My nan’s a hedge-mumper.”
“My nan’s a hedge-mumper.”
“My nan’s a hedge-mumper.”

She went
shoeless in Salford for Morrissey.
She went
shoeless in Salford,
ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
That’s what she always said;
you never really knew what she meant.

Urchinular, she hauled herself onto the stage,
grubby fingernails clawing at the
shirttails of the bequiffed messiah;
you see,
he took her higher.
He took her higher.
He took her higher.
He took her higher.
She was a hunchback.
She was a hunchback.
He took her higher.
He takes her higher.

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from The Salted Lime of Her Hungry Lips EP, released June 9, 2016

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"We put the boot in - flew the freak-flag;
We stood resolute like Morrissey’s quiff."

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