A rose by any other name
beware of her thorns
She'll make you feel pain
the kind of pain that'll make you feel
that you'll never feel pain so sweet
again.

Tuesday and?
what did you expect
that rose in Spanish Harlem?

and who remembers that anymore
when you can buy them
a dollar a dozen
at the Walmart next door.

Start late and finish early,
not complaining
which makes for a nice change.

When the sun shines for more than a day
and Summer may or may not be on the way
I
shall take time out to play
truant.

more houses
more police
more nurseries
more bursaries
not sure about
more universities
but I'm guessing so

more or less of
whatever you can guess
and cheaper too,

more prisons
more schisms
more money?
nah

and it looks like a giveaway,
till they get into power
and then it's a takeaway,
am I talking Chinese?
nah

we've been here before
heard all that baloney
and more,
just get on with it.

Pitter patter
and what time you wake
doesn't matter
because you know that
it's raining,

June and Summer soon
not soon enough for me.

Sleeping late
or
just practising for the long one?

'I can't believe it's not better'
the wag at the back shouts,
it's butter,
you can't believe it's not butter
which is no better.

I'm already tired.

not everyone wants the whole
kit and caboodle
some will lead you on and only
want to kiss and canoodle,
then they'll leave you high and dry
make you sad
make you cry

because when you're fourteen
it still hurts.

It's just a crowd
not mad nor hastening
but ambling and taking in
the scenery

typically I am in a hurry
push past as I rush past,
and then I forget
where I was going,

who knows in
what order
the brain works?

There are some that need some saving
and some where the saving is done
and the ones who cry the loudest get
the Devil on the run,

I was out there shopping for bread rolls
but the evangelists reeled me in
so many souls and so few bread rolls
that be the price of my sin.

Grammarly is having a heart attack
red and blue lines everywhere
I carry on murdering the language
because in truth
what the hell do I care.