The second verse is great, I couldn’t bring myself to type in the first stanza in its casual misogyny. Did it anyway, see bottom of post.
The poet is talking about a tipsy boy and shows in a lovely way their own tipsiness by the gaps between words. .
[…] lolling over that bus seat shouting
it’s a London thing. He is obviously a knob
but a happy one and that it seems to me
is the important though not localizable thing.
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Girl with ridiculous earrings why do you bother
to slap the boy we all assume is your boyfriend
and is lolling over that bus seat shouting