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in the town where i was born lived a man who went to work
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and he told us of his life building spaceships on forty pounds a week .
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and he’d take us all for rides , and we’d do some serious drugs in
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on board the enterprise allowance we could do whatever we liked .
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and we could go to a meadowlark lemon seminar ,
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be at the tony monopoly incident ,
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sort a strobe for connie plank ,
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shop around with johnny kwango .
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if you would come with me to dawlish
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i’d be like stadler’s Caddy for ya .
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and we’d return in time for tea and our dads would not have inklings
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said we’d been to organise a frisbee competition
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with the gypsies down the road .
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d’ya wanna swap a hundred spandex overcoats
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for the mental age of a haversack
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it’s been like this since we saw pragvec at the melkweg .
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oh i doctored my edible thong with listeria
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now my only hope is that your offspring walks backwards
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just as i expected the shopkeeper appeared
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and then the band began to play .