Shoulder Pads 1# - The Fall

All these fads

It’s shoulder pads

On New Year’s Dawn

To my surprise

All the Macca lads stayed at home

Picking antiques and clothes

Clothes reflect with green bits

(Name on the corner of my stub toes.)

My powers

Have been spent half-useless

My senses

alive at party

Was embarrassed but stayed with them

Walked, at shoulder, down the street, ridicule

You couldn’t tell Lou Reed from Doug Yule

Suppressed big romance

It was like being back at school

My powers (mumble)

My powers (mumble)

Win populace, internal defeat

Gramma had a coup d’etat

Realize what they’d always wanted

Knew I was right all along

It wasn’t then a Beatles song

Superhero in harlequin kecks

Dim-wit lecture, half read

Visiplex singers ten years dead

Was clowned

(Bitter man)

Shoulder pads

(Spawned)

Then my powers did return…