When hip-hop’s selling perfume and boy band’s selling grief

Everything Is Everything” is a poem by Paul Heaton read by Bootsy Collins (listen) in a spoken word performance featured on Late Night Tales: Fatboy Slim.

Poem About Everything and Naught:

When hip-hop’s selling perfume

And boy band’s selling grief

The blues man’s market life insurance just won’t flip underneath

Jazz just chucks its concrete into transparent handkerchief

Everything is anything to anyone … (read)