The Old Bus Shelter, Great Longstone

• Mozza and Dazza and Moley and Gloom
• Long waited a bus on a late afternoon
• Occasionally wiping a nose on their sleeves
• Sat in the shelter midst litter and leaves.
• "Moley" said Dazza "your eyesight aint able
• To decipher a word on any timetable"
• But down in the litter was a notice that read
• Due to mergers and cutbacks this service is dead.
• They waited for ever but a bus never showed
• Though Moley and Gloom did a dance in the road
• And Mozza and Dazza complained that they must
• Because of the damp, be turning to rust.
• Then later, much later by the moons eery light
• They just floated away like a cry in the night
• Left scrawled on the wall of that terrible room
• Was Mozza and Dazza and Moley and Gloom.

CJ 7.12.01

Tragically, the graffiti has been removed but we know that they're still out there somewhere.  Only its re-creation can release them from their entrapment!

On Finding an Ear Tag.

• Oh 645 where are you now?
• Were you sheep or were you cow?
• Are you painted on some fresco?
• Or in a packet down at Tesco.

Apr 2001

In support of Toads.

• Everybody loves a frog
• In a pond or in a bog,
• But nobody loves a toad
• See them flat upon the road
• Kiss a frog but do not wince
• For it may turn into a prince.
• But don't kiss toads where 'ere they come
• Or you'll find warts upon your bum.

December 2012

Incident at St Ives.

• While walking homeward with my fowl
• I thought I heard a woolly growl
• But no, it was a seagull nasty
• Flying off with my bird's pasty.

June 1999

Sailing to Antarctica.

• On either side the inlet lay
• Steep walls of ice in white and grey
• And on the beach were penguins gay
• Onward through the endless day
• Sailing to Antarctica

• Past rock and glacier deepest blue
• The Ocean Diamond bore us true
• Ice bergs, whales and petrels too
• Scents of seals and penguin poo
• Sailing to Antarctica

• When homeward scattered, sun or rain
• In city or on crowded train
• Those magic moments will remain
• We may not pass this way again
• Sailing to Antarctica.

February 2018

 

chris.jackson@zen.co.uk