Five in years in the civil service counting the unemployed in ever more contrived fashions convinced me that working for The Man was not really my thing, so I reappeared as Porky The Poet, spouting asinine doggerel in a second-hand mag, supporting people like Billy Bragg, The Style Council and The Pogues.

asinine (adj) : of or belonging to, or having the qualities of, the ass, as stupidity and obstinacy; complacently or inanely foolish – source: Word 2/2003, p. 49