“Sister I'm a Poet” by Morrissey

"Sister I'm a Poet" first surfaced as a B-side, tucked behind Morrissey's "Everyday Is Like Sunday" single, and it has spent the years since proving it deserved better billing. Once Viva Hate had won the critics over, Morrissey went back to Stephen Street for more, and the pair came up with three songs to fill out that single: this one, "Will Never Marry" and "Disappointed". Street wrote the music, Morrissey the words.

The result has the Smiths written all over the tune, with Morrissey at his wittiest on top, and its lyric and title have been read as a tip of the hat to Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie. Critics warmed to it, fans adopted it, and it has turned up on several compilations and stayed a fixture of his live sets.

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