72 Miles From The Sea

Tuesday 13 June 2023

You know you’re getting old

When you’ve been on hold

For so long to a utility supplier

That you forgot what you called for

I suffer from kleptomania

I have to admit

But when it gets bad,

I take something for it

There was a parade of rabbits

All in a line

Hopping backwards,

A receding hare-line

Writer Charles Dickens

Kept in his kitchen

The best of thymes,

The worst of thymes

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"