Harriboy's Hut

Harri and Len, beat poetry, Harriboy's Hut mix .

YOLO YOLO

Yolo yolo
Yolo yolo
Yolo yolo
Yolo yolo

Do every
Thing you can
Do it now
Fore you go
Life ain't a
Rehearsal
This is your
Only gig

Yolo yolo
Yolo yolo
Yolo yolo
Yolo yolo

Rise up tall
Stand up proud,
Play it all
Shout out loud,
Give out love
Where you can,
To your friends
To yourself.

Yolo yolo
Yolo yolo
Yolo yolo
Yolo yolo

When all hope
Disappears
Search it out
Bring it back
Don't waste your
Precious time
Search out hope
Bring it home

Yolo yolo
Yolo yolo
Yolo yolo
Yolo yolo

Bring it home
After all
You only
Live one time

Yolo yolo
Yolo yolo
Yolo yolo
Yolo yolo

Harry Rogers in Harriboy's Hut 8th September 2023

Republican poem by Harry Rogers.

VELVET TRAPPINGS

We feed those who live for patriarchy
With images that maintain the arcane.
Three generations of anti freedom
Draped in velvet trappings of privilege.
They ape worst excesses of history,
Personifying divine rights of kings
As they shit on dreams of equality.
What kind of psychological illness
Courses through these creatures minds in such times?
Yet still large crowds do sing God save the king
Whilst footballers drop down to take the knee.
Behind back stairs we hear servant chatter
Whispered in republican deference,
These popinjays believe that they matter.

Harry Rogers in the Red Bedroom, 29th August 2023.

Harry Rogers composition.

Where Orcas Sing

That place, where Orcas sing untranslated songs,
Makes me wonder, what do they sing about?
Do they spread gallant rebellious tales,
Of how to take back ancient hunting grounds
From overweight human vacationers,
Who swan about in their Sun Seeker boats,
Who discharge rotten stinky sewage,
Pollute aural pathways with engine noise,
And invade nature's private paradise.
Do Orcas share tales of nudging rudders,
To send bourgeois invaders off course?
I hope so, killer whales are fabulous.
One day, after the singularity,
AI will translate, we will be long gone.

Harry Rogers in the Red Bedroom,
6th August 2023.

Latest techno jazz beat poem published on my blog Harri Seeing Red on 1st August 2023, recorded in Harriboy's Hut on Wednesday 9th August 2023.

Latest recorded track by Harry Rogers and Len Arthur. One in a series destined for an album of jazzy beat poetry rants later this year.

My poem Einstein's Violin is a fantasy idea of Albert Einstein playing his beloved Lina as he tripped on LSD.

I wrote this lyric in 2011 and did nothing with it. Recently I bought a Logitech Yeti USB microphone and I made this recording in Harriboy's Hut in July 2023.

I wrote this poem just after the New Cross Fire back in 1982. I recently recorded it and set it to a backing track.

Here is the poem:-

STOLEN LIGHTNING.

The flashes stolen

From the god of war

Parading on the streets

Just like before

Borrowed symbols

Turn the runes around

Dream wings are melting

Crashing to the ground

Children screaming,

Can’t you feel the parents loss?

A Nazi is hiding

Behind the broken cross

Stolen Lightning

Flashing round your head

Stolen Lightning

Illuminates the dead

Stolen Lightning

Eagles fly again

Stolen Lightning

From so-called “supermen”

 Harry Rogers 18th February 1982