Year: 2021

With apologies to Adrian Henri   Tonight at noon Karl Marx will be dug up And re-buried in Westminster Abbey,

One of the nicest afternoons I’ve spent Was the one we spent together Searching for your dog.   You called

Hair’em, tear’em, frighten and scare them, Lenin and Stalin and Marx Went to the fair And what did they there?

Dostoyevsky… (A name you like saying) Dostoyevsky clearly understood The workings of the human mind. But there were times when

Problem: I can now only be sure that life Exists if I am staring at a screen, Between laughing and

The sad thing about being a princess Is that, nowadays, The king has promised half his kingdom To the income

I will drive home indirectly, I have a fear of turning right. Oncoming cars head straight towards me, pedestrians obscure

We wished upon a white blackbird because you said we must, Because it was lucky. I don’t know what you

Fido the elephant staggered home tipsy, Dead to the world with a hole in his trunk. That’s what comes of

Put down your paper. Yes, this concerns you. Your womenfolk are grieving. The world that you made, That you are