WAITING FOR A LECTURE
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SCREAM
Hey diddle diddle
The cat and the fiddle,
God’s up there,
The devil’s down there
And here am I.
Trapped.
In the middle. [1996]
DON'T
There was a time
I could have said
Wooder bin better
To stay in bed.
But now I say,
‘Let’s get up.’
Why?
Dunno.
Give up. [1996]
HIDE & SNAKE
Hiss! hiss! hiss!
Chrissy shan’t miss
her pet snake.
It slithered and it wriggled
— along —
— so long —
— on —
that wicked fellow John.
It looked at her longingly,
Chrissy’s pet snake
he he! hiss hiss!
She hit it with a broom —
in the living-room,
Chrissy’s pet snake.
‘For Pete’s sake!’
(for that was his name)
‘You’ve squashed his brain!’
I appealed to her better nature.
Though not deterred
a jot.
‘I should have shot
both you and the snake,’
she hissed direct a' me.
ha ha! hiss hiss!
Chrissy shan’t miss
her pet snake.
bah humbug!
squish! [1997]
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