sammy

sammy gave me some clouds tonight
he said he got them from the licky hills
them hills don't go up far enought to get clouds i said
but i put them on my mantle next to the clock in the jar anyway
sammy says that he can steal dreams
so now i sleep with two hats on

cherry bakewell

i ate a cherry bakewell
i ate a cherry pie
i sat amongst the pigeons
and waited to die
i saw a madman walking
i saw a madman cry
i waited for the postman
and waved him goodbye

quentins birthday

i went round quentins tonight for his birthday supper
quentin got an old ford torino for his birthday
but he's already gutted it and
said he's going to use his and turn it into a mobile disco
we played return to castle wolfenstein and
we had fruit cocktails with the little cherrys in them and watched dallas
quentins mum gave me a broken wristwatch to fix
but it was really a transformer that turned into a boeing 737

jimmys grandma made me tea

i went round to jimmys for tea,
i usually go round after my paperound.
we had potato waffles beans and battenburg
jimmys grandma kept telling me to fetch in the kittens off the line

i dont know what she meant

i told jim that i'll visit him if he goes inside

today he swapped my old bmx for some fireworks and burnt down the scout hut
he says it was an accident
maybe it was

jimmys grandmas rhyme

jimmys grandma told me a rhyme

it was a gentle summer day
and i saw old reverend Brown
His motor- the insipid terror of a small suburban town
His graveyard, quite amazing for such a godforsaken place
made full up by the victims of his homicidal pace
so you better go to the shops to buy teabags