72 Miles From The Sea

Tuesday, 3 August 2021

The Oracles of antiquity,

Were portals to the Olympians

So, the Gods could speak

Directly to those in their dominions

On the bottom of

The sea it twitches? because

It’s a nervous wreck

I am a really terrible cook

I’ve burnt everything so far

I’m definitely not Cordon Bleu

In fact I’m more Cordon Noir

Four and twenty blackbirds

Baked in a crumble

Would that make Greggs

Customers grumble?

I learned a valuable life lesson

And I’m not eager to repeat my plight

When I foolishly took a sleeping pill

And a laxative on the same night

I’ve always accepted the inevitability

Of one day being over the hill

What I didn’t expect was to pick up speed

On the other side of that hill

If it wasn’t for the stress

Which is a feature of my distress

And the resulting nervous energy

I wouldn’t have any energy