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Contents:· Cat · Mná · Alan Mullally’s Song (Now I’m Leaving) · The Hero · Statue · Worms · Books · The Da · Female Modes of Dress (or The Miniskirt) · The Dance in the Village Hall · Obsessed · Corrakit · The New Daughter of Houlihan · Lewinsky · Jacussy |
The Outrageous Poems of Krunchie Killeen:
WORMS Worms and creepy things abound In my garden, crawling round. And, when the ground is sodden through, Up they come for all to view.
Turn a stone and they surprise us In their many shapes and sizes. Healthy brown worms, bright with slime, These I like, but have no time
For those sickly greens or yellows, Or those lively, wiry, rusty fellows Of many feet, who eat my tubers, Occasioning in me Most Violent Humours;
For, when you splice them with your spade, Both halves live that you have made, And wriggle off into the clay To gorge again another day
Upon whatever you have sown. And you wonder why your flower has grown So slow, and why its blooms Are anaemic, sickly things, till soon
You dig it up, and then you see Six hundred creatures wriggle free. Sometimes, when you sit at table To eat a feed, if you are able,
Of lettuce and other garden greens, You think you've of a sudden seen Something stir upon your plate. You look again to see a great,
Big, slimy, yellow snail Which even your wife's wily washing failed To dislodge from the leaf You nearly had between your teeth.
Green worms, grey worms, red worms, blue, How I hate the lot of you. If I find you in my way, I'll make a mash of you for play. |
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