As well as being a brilliant singer-songwriter Graham Brazier also had a strong talent for poetry.
The poem White closes his final album.
White with fear in response to red
This poem consider all things white
Mountain peak
Wave caps that speak
Bled white to the bone
Shop telephone
Leprosy
Ring bark tree
Arsenic palour
Giblet remains
School boy spit
Ivory shames
New Zealand soccer teams
Sperm on skirt seams
Clouds of dreams
Unhealthy nails
Bleached justice scales
Graveyard surface
Pale and nervous
Wedding gowns
Virgin towns
Sheets to the wind
Change sheet unsinnеd
Albino kin
And Bombay Gin
Marriage rice
And condensеd milk tin
The one who couldn't swim
The shifting majority
Tomorrow's minority
Flag of surrender
Child so tender
Shades of pale
Holding pen gaol
Rail page
Polar bear cage
And after the rage
The empty stage
And now that it's written all down
What colour do we paint the town
Sunday best
The unsat test
Past is best
Pigeon chest
Daisy petal
Hansel and Gretel
Yorrick's head
The never dead
Clean under clothes
Winter rose
The way it goes
The way it goes
A chapel cross
Lemon ice block
An honest man's soul
And Seattle rock and roll
Alabaster stair
Thespians grease paint
The colour of fate
Drop of blood in the snow
Huskies coat
Eskimo's home
Skeleton key
Toilet seat
Pre-honeymoon sheet
Neat neat neat
White line fever
Platinum retriever
Cricket attire
And white hot fire
And now that it's written all down
What colour do we paint the town
New sandshoes
Impersonators blues
Half a pair of two tone shoes
Not for everyone to lose
Unblemished face
Ice cream taste
A trust worthy race
Whitechapel
Monroe's dress over a New York grill
Birthday icing
Caused Titanic's demise
A blind man's eyes
Out of line this heart of mine
Henry Cooper's nose
Them bones them bones them dry bones
Them bones
Spectral ghost
And Swedish host
White enzyme
Confetti shine
White lightening
Black market's nemesis
Nights like this
Ashen with fear
Your skin my dear
Two milligrams valium
Sleep in hail
Ivory nail
Doves of peace
Day light release
John Key's blood
And the White House blood
Surgeon's gloves
Purity of love
Tis white alright
Black's foe at chess
This fucken mess
Alaskan avalanche
Can Can dance
A fresh clean chance
Optical glance
Equinox in France
And into the valley of death rode the six hundred
Tis white alright
Donny Osmond's teeth
Pearl handled pistol
Moonstone crystal
Institution yard
Taj Mahal facade
Marching girls jacket
Heroin packet
China white
Fog at night
Zombie's visage
Moby Dick
English rose
The colour of love I'd love to give her
But it's sported with the mud from the Yarra river
Papal frock
From the Canterbury Arch Bishop
A bottle of whisky in secreted hip pocket
Police motorcycle
Ghost's that like to frighten tourists
Not for everybody to lose
A pint head on a handle of booze
Half a Minstrel show
Half a pair of two tone shoes
The ghost we know
And now that it's written all down
What colour do we paint the town
White was written by Graham Brazier.
White was produced by Alan Jansson.
Graham Brazier released White on Sat May 06 2017.