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Morris Maroon
1945 - 1997
British Anarcho-Punk Poet and Exec. Director of British Oil 1964 - 1997

Morris Maroon was a British performance poet, anarchist theorist and senior oil business executive who published many volumes of abrasive and critical poems and essays criticising capitalism and neo-liberalism. He was a founder member of CND and Greenpeace, and campaigned relentlessly against what he saw as the genocidal excesses of the very company that he was Director of for most of his adult life. On weekends he would often be seen leading violent demonstrations against himself outside the gates of the headquarters of his own company British Oil, and on more than one occasion using incendiary devices and postal bomb attacks on his own offices. As a result of his huge power in the British Establishment, he would often be arrested on a Saturday only to use company assets to bribe Judges on a Sunday or have Parliament change the law on Monday to allow his release. He railed against himself regularly in his columns in various daily newspapers addressing himself famously: “…Morris Maroon is the worst kind of man that can exist, one who positively relishes the appalling contradiction at the heart of himself - a person both classically evil and yet also using what self-critical functions are left at the heart of his humanity not as a fuel for change, but to power yet more absurd, violent and contradictory actions…”

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This is the ballad of Morris Maroon
Two sided man
The divided tycoon…

Boardroom devotee
Making money grow
But night-time and weekends
He plots to overthrow…
himself

Morris Maroon
Morris Maroon
Two distorted sides
Of the same silver spoon

Eyes outlined in black
Like a living cartoon
Saves in the morning
Kills all afternoon

Threw a petrol bomb
At his own limousine
Black paint a’ crackling
A shout and a scream

Calls the judge for release
On his gold telephone
I’m Morris Maroon
And I’m coming home

CHORUS (SILVER SPOON)

He issued an order
To his own secret police
To track down the man
In the tunnels beneath
His own hollowed-out personality

They captured him quick
He had nowhere to hide
Tortured and beaten
But just on one side

CHORUS (SILVER SPOON)

Sends a hitman
From Switzerland
To obliterate himself
Avoiding any mention
Of his mental health

the ABC
Of SCHIZO-PHRENITY
Goes to D

A is for Anarchy
B is for Business
C for explosive
D - is deformative

In a statement to shareholders
read out at dawn
in front of the smoking
and bombed-out form
of …
Monday morn’…:

“Shares they be shorting
Boardrooms a slaughter
It’s a warning
To Headquarters
there’s LSD in all the water
I’m two halves like plutonium
Of one much stranger beast
I’m Morris Maroon
the most
and yet the least”

and then he detonated the bomb…

BOOM 🤯

A burial 🪦
A eulogy
A memorial stone
Rest in pieces Mr M
You’ll never walk alone

CHORUS

After Morris Maroon
To the relief of all his staff
Died of ‘blown to bits’
His gravestone cracked in half
When one part fell over on a
Sleeping policeman’s head
Morris the undead
Tried to sue himself instead.

This is the ballad of Morris Maroon
Two sided man
The divided tycoon…
Morris Maroon
Morris Maroon
Two distorted sides
Of the same silver spoon

If you’re still a’ wondering
Who is Morris Maroon
Morris Maroon
Is YOU

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from Jody Barton x Lovenskate - Staff Meeting - EP - (2023), released February 22, 2023

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Jody Barton Copenhagen, Denmark

Jody Barton was born and raised in the UK near London and now lives in Copenhagen. His rowdy and eclectic music calls to mind the post-punk and anarcho folk of Crass, Ian Dury & The Blockheads and just a little bit of Tim Curry. His latest project ‘Morris Maroon & Other Ballads’ is an open-ended work in progress both as a solo live set and recorded album.

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