A Strut for Alice
1975
Brighton
Theatre project
a revue piece
Francis
later Visa Versa of
Poison Girls
and some University students
torturing a drama about the body
we
would take The Body Show
to the Edinburgh fringe
The
body
Vi said we had to be totally honest
or it wasn't worth the spit
I
said well er
I have a sort of
prejudice er ah
I find fat a… it
was just the wrong time
Danny
Vi's 14 year old Punk son
was trash in
the kitchen
and Gary, her lover
was I forget
so Vi wrote us all
a
Kitchen Floor Stomp
where she was cleaning up
all trace of us
from off
her kitchen floor… a
few rehearsals later
winding down
Vi asks me
Pasha! what do you want
to do? I said I
just want to strut
Vi said well get on up and strut!
I heard distain
and
I couldn't
but I went home
and wrote
A Strut For Alice
I'm
a tower of passion
and a cauldron of wisdom and truth
I've been perceived
as a power quite smashing
'cause I'm so perfectly balanced
hard and
smooth
and nobody fucks with Pasha
but that ain't because I'm uncouth
I ain't tread on your tail yet
sister don't hedge your bet
take a
seat with your brothers
you ain't deified yet
Alice
remember the Queen of Hearts
she was raving right through from the start
I
know the tarts that she baked
were really hot cakes
but the knave who
enjoyed those tarts
remember the liberties he gave me
babe I just wanna
be another sort of caterpillar
remembering what the
dormouse said
feed your head Flower
or you ain't never gonna see no butterflies | 
