72 Miles From The Sea

Monday, 15 February 2021

When a man, before the wedding day

Holds on to the woman’s hand, they say

It’s a certain sign of a love intense

After marriage it’s just self-defence

I have often thought it ironic

That to spell the word phonetic

You are not required in reality

To spell the word phonetically

When you’re behind bars in prison much of your time is spent

Looking through the bars dreaming of your release day event

But if you’re at work you spend much of your time looking afar

To the end of the day when you can get out and get inside a bar

When you’re in prison you may have plenty of time to kill

But you don’t have to work, and the taxpayer foots the bill

But when you’re at work it costs you to get there every day

And to provide for prisoners they deduct taxes from your pay

It takes neurotics

To build castles in the air

But it takes psychotics

To live in them there

It always takes longer

Than you expected

Even when Murphy’s

Has been accounted

For the world at large Shrove Tuesday

Precedes Ash Wednesday

For my unfortunate family stove Tuesday

Precedes trash Wednesday