Attila the stockbroker contributory negligence

Attila the Stockbroker (born John Baine on October 21, 1957) is a punk performance poet, songwriter and musician.

Attila the stockbroker contributory negligence

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• It first was a rumour dismissed as a lie
  but then came the evidence none could deny:
  a double page spread in the Sunday Express —
  The Russians are running the DHSS!
  • "Russians in the DHSS", from Cautionary Tales for Dead Commuters (1985)
  • DHSS = Department of Health and Social Security, a British government department.

• Hitching up the M11
  coming back from a Dexys gig
  got picked up 'bout half eleven
  by this bloke in a funny wig
  • "Contributory Negligence", from Cautionary Tales for Dead Commuters (1985)
  • Written for a judge who said a raped woman hitchhiker had been guilty of "contributory negligence".

    In the poem, Attila hitches a lift with a judge, attacks him and uses the ruling in his defence.

• He wanted me to beat him up!
  It was an open invitation!
  Late at night he picked me up —
  an act of open p