Day: January 7, 2020

Amber eyes

I brought home a kitten from a friend
So tiny yet so fierce he bit my hands
We could not find him  when we came back home
He was   tucked in with the sheet  under the foam

We  had no garden so we  took him out
Wrapped in a wool cardigan,I think
He lay contented on my knee  all day
Looking at the trees and coloured sky

When mature  he roamed the night away
Sleeping in a rocking chair all day
Benjamin, we called him, was run down
In the rush hour by a speeding clown,

The amber eyes of  Benjamin would glow
He gave us  happiness,we  loved him so

Will Picasso have to paint a cow?

How confusing keeping all the rules
What’s your gender, I’m pansexual, you ?
We don’t go to Mass, though bread is cool

Where do ladies store their fragile jewels?
I love you dearly, I will take a vow
How  disarming breaking a few rules

Where are men to keep their virtual  tools?
Will Picasso have to paint a cow?
We don’t go to Mass,  except at Yule

What if  there’s no oil and then no fuel
I  have got a fever, feel my brow
How confusing learning  any rules

Attacking people’s words is very cruel
Gender’s on  a bender anyhow
We  don’t pray though Jesus was no fool

The beauty of John Donne is sexist now
Whom I cannot imitate I sue
How  alluring when “they ” change the rules
We don’t go to Mass, we  do the pools

When we bombed Iraq

Do you remember when we bombed Iraq?
No doubt the war was for  the good of man
Yeah, some would die,  and others feel their lack

By and large, what does it mean to sack?
Real  democracy  was said to be the plan
Do you remember when we bombed Iraq?

In Downing St will Blair have a blue plaque?
His conviction, where did it begin?
Yeah, some would die,  and others feel their lack

Now  the Leader wanders  in the gaps
But we no longer call such deeds a sin
Do you remember when we bombed Iraq?

At night when we can’t sleep, we see  attacks
Where to start, well Trump  suggests Iran
Yeah, some will die, but  there is  heaven   for wrecks

Since we write, we read  our scripts again
Civilised, we use our manners well
Do you remember when we bombed Iraq?
Yeah,  we chose to   follow   Evil’s tracks