My Weird Sixties Surreal Book – Chapter 52 – Pete Smith’s Death in a Breath poem

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Portendown is where they produce the viruses and bacteria that can cause a plague to wipe out the enemy. They test all kinds of biological and chemical weapons. The object is to kill more efficiently. The danger is that it kills everyone – friend and foe – in the process.

This poem was Pete’s – I incorporated it into the book. It fitted in here.

52.

Death in a breath.

 

(We’ve got ……………)

Red bloody death

And black spotty death

And they’ve served their purpose well-o

Fried to a turn

Crisped brown burn

And lovely green gassy hell-o

 

But what we need to kill with speed

And I’m sure you’ll all join me with this creed

 

—– is………………

(The new yellow……..)

 

SUPERKILLLER FRAGMENTARY GERMICIDAL AKSHUN

SUPERKILLER ORBALLISTIC ONE CAN KILL A NASHUN

 

IF YOU WANNAKILLA LOT WE’VE SOMETHING QUITE OBNOKSHUS

SUPERKILLERPORTENDOWNSOWNGALLOPINGBRAINROT POK_SHUS

 

OOOOOOOOOH   YEEEEAAAH!!!!!!!!!

 

(Written by Pete Smith)

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Death in a breath – A poem to the wonders of biological warfare – You have to laugh don’t you?

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This is a poem written in 1970 by my best mate Pete Smith. He’s a genius by the way – Wild Science inventor, musician, teacher, explorer, songwriter, and general creator of chaos.

Back in the 1960s we shared a flat as students and generally put the world to rights, saw a lot of gigs and talked, and talked and talked, and wrote poems, did drawings and talked some more. Pete invented light-shows, polarised light projections and made strange musical instruments.

It was a time of expansion.

This was the height of the Cold War. We still expected to be wiped out any day. Britain was doing its best for the cause. We had Porten Down. They were secret laboratories that everyone knew about. They were developing wonderful antidotes to communism, and life in general. They were called chemical warfare and biological warfare. We could threaten people with them and only release them if we had to – or by accident.

We were quite concerned about this prospect.

Pete wrote a poem/song about it:

Death in a breath

We’ve got ……..

Red bloody death

And black spotty death

And they’ve both served their purpose well-o

Fried to a turn

Crisped, brown, burn

And lovely green gassy hell-o

But what we need

To kill with speed

And I’m sure you’ll all join me

In this creed

Is……..

The new yellow

Superkillerfragmentarygermicidal akshun

Superkillerorballisticonecankilla nashun

If you want to kill a lot

We’ve got

Something quite obnokshus

Superkillerportendownsowngallopingbrainrot poxshus

Oh yeah ………

Pete Smith 1970