72 Miles From The Sea

Sunday, 12 September 2021

You know that you have

Become an older chap

When your “happy hour”

Is spent taking a nap

He survived mustard gas in battle,

He was pepper sprayed by a policeman

And the result of those traumatic events

He was rendered a seasoned veteran

I’m not sure what the best thing is

About Switzerland, and I’m not fussed

I don’t know enough about the country

I do like the flag, so that’s a big plus

I saw a cheetah being

Chatted up by a Lion

I thought, “He’s trying

To pull a fast one"

In the eighties I used to supply

Filofaxes to the mafia at the time

I suppose you could say I was

Involved in very organised crime

A cement mixer collided with a prison van

And the incident was critical

Motorists are asked to be on the lookout

For sixteen hardened criminals

My grandfather invented,

And you might well scoff,

The cold air balloon, well

It never really took off