Very good home
Cental heating
TV
A deep freeze
A very good home-
No one to take you
For that lovely long run-
But otherwise
‘A very good home’
They fed you Pal and Chun
But not that lovely long run,
Until, mad with energy and boredom
You escaped- and ran and ran and ran
Under a car.
Today they will cry for you-
Tomorrow they will buy another dog.
It it’s good enough to eat,It’s good enough to stand!On a plinth in LondonA statue we should seeOf Porridge made in ScotlandSigned, ‘Oatmeal, O.B.E.’(By a young dog of three)
Around her knees, into each ear(And up nose as well, I fear)All through the night the wind grew worseIt nearly made the vicar curseThe top had fallen off the steepleJust missing him (and other people)It blew on man, it blew on beastIt blew on nun, it blew on priestIt blew the wig off Auntie Fanny-But…
Life is endless nightI hear wings beating inthe dark of my roomA giant Raven is waiting –for me to fall asleep.
No, I cannot love you lessLike the flower to the butterflyThe corsage to the dressShe turns my love to dustmy destination emptymy beliefs scattered: Diaspora!Who set this course – and why?Now my wings beat –without purposeYet they speed………….
I’m walking backwards for Christmas,It’s the only thing for me.I’ve tried walking sideways,And walking to the front,But people just look at me,And say it’s a publicity stunt.I’m walking backwards for Christmas,To prove that I love you.An immigrant lad, loved an Irish colleenFrom Dublin Galway Bay.He longed for her arms,But she spurned his charms,And sailed o’er…
But tiny FredJust lies in bed,The lazy little beast.
