Hello and welcome back to regular features. You are tuned in to the regular features poetry hour. I'm joined by Matt Lees.

Good evening, Stephen. How are you doing today, Matt?

Wonderful. I was, I've just spent the day walking around outside, looking at the clouds in the sky and the trees, and sometimes noticing the way that these have similar shapes. To think, to things in the sky and the trees and sometimes noticing the way that these have similar shapes.

To things in your brain that you wish to express?

No, just to each other.

But I find that can be quite inspiring.

I can't keep up the radio four.

DJ thing.

Hello, welcome to regular features.

It's episode number 137. And we're doing poetry. We are. We're doing slam poetry. Slam poetry and a bit of regular poetry because we run out of slam poetry. Well, what is slam poetry? Really? I mean, really? Does anybody know? I actually don't know what's like... I looked it up and it's like, it's just people doing poems. Yeah, I looked it up on Wikipedia and it's basically just people doing poems with a bit of like intenseness to it. Yeah. I thought it was like rap battles. Yeah. When you were like, hey Matt, let's do slam poetry. I was like writing all this shit about your mother. And then I had to delete it all, so I can't remember any of it. Slam implies laying down a slam, like slamming someone, like in a rap battle about their

mum.

Like, I wandered lonely as your fucking mum.

Your lonely fat mum.

She has got no friends.

All at once I saw a crowd of men outside her house

that was quite usual was not not remarkable

and lo behold they form an orderly cue.

And at the front, oh look, it's you.

Oh, that's fun, isn't it?

Because it's insinuating that somebody's having sex with their mother.

And then afterwards, loads of other men are going to have sex with their mother.

And not just a random gaggle, but polite men who know how to queue. Yeah. Because they know she's going to be up for it, even if you're 34 men back. Well, the thing I like about it is it suggests that this is a regular thing. This is an occurrence. They're not just turning up on a one-off. It's not just a kind of a chance in the dark.

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