Trying to take it all in
hashtag grin or gin

for the beginners
sit there and pray for us
because
there is nothing else to do

we're through
down the drains
in handcrafted chains
not made in Britain
but
more likely India,

imported coal
and
that's just another hole
to bury us in,

hashtag grin or gin.

Are they all glamorous
and if so
what about us
the **** it in brigade

We who raid the fridges at midnight
hold our bellies in tight and buy ever
tighter trousers

from when we we're a pup
until our old age
the waist sizes go up

and those plans that we made
what happened to them
what happened to us that we
became old men?

Anyway
I'm beyond caring now,
and
letting my beard grow
allowing my hair to go where it will
still wondering
if they are all glamorous.

They tell me that the weather is changing
but changing or not, it'll still be the weather.

Buy British?
inward looking

I sometimes wonder
who's cukin' who
and who's the cuckoo?

The world is global
although
it doesn't seem to want
to be
perhaps
a pre-frontal
lobotomy
or maybe not.

Meanwhile
there are plenty of studies
by buddies of buddies
that pay very well and
tell very little.

Yes
I saw it,
but only when I wanted to
and even then
I never believed that
it could be true
and yet I knew
that it was.

Life
is just because it
can be
and we
have no control
over it,

we can only see it
through our own eyes.

Tuesday's child is full of grace
well
that didn't work out
did it?

Tuesday
1 May 1956