So many tears
Sears and Roebuck
were my contemporaries,
Methuselah was my secretary
so many years ago.

..and here we go again
him
bleating out more pain
it
makes me sick.

These are trying times
if you're not doing lines
or smoking some 'horse'
but of course we have
shouldered those blames
smouldered then burst
back into flames.

It's a chess game
knight take bishop
pawn checks King
and the Queen is in
the counting house
bathing in inheritance.

I try,
tried, died a few times
and not doing lines
of course that rhymes
but mostly it's true.

The platform fell through on Level fifty two and that was unexpected, the way I fell for you was unexpected too.

Changes for the better,
brush my hair
take care of my skin
look after my diet
so
why am I not thin?

Thursday tends to the business at hand as I tend to
myself.

Dreams and the reasons behind them,
with men, it's easy, sometimes graphic,
something to do with,
well,
I laugh at it.

With females
more
intuitive
they know much more than we do.

When I stop dreaming my world
becomes silent
please find me a plot
because that'll be my lot

I'm getting on with it
loving this life
a bit more.

They're tightening up their bible belts
to belch out one more lie
we should ship them off to Alcatraz
give them juice and let them fry

waddaya mean
Alcatraz has closed
and bible belts
aren't real
you say
there's no electric chair
well
Jeezus I don't think that's fair
you'll have them wearing monitors
lizards that they are
yes
giving them their freedom is just a
little step too far.

I'm complaining to the free press
which is another flamin' stretch.

You never say
but how are you
today?

I miss you,
miss, you
but
you will do
what you do

will you miss me too?

There is no refuge here
because we refuse
to have them here
oh!
it's we is it?
I never signed that contract

First contact
a young man from Addis Ababa
had a drink with him
bought him a Guinness
because I thought he was thin
but he was bright
made the stars in the night
his own

Lancaster University
'71
and look ye now
how it has grown
some have not.