Aqualung

Tull Jethro

Sitting on a park bench


eyeing up little girls with bad intent.


Snot running down his nose


greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes.


Drying in the cold sun


Watching as the frilly panties run.


Feeling like a dead duck


spitting out pieces of his broken luck.





Sun streaking cold


an old man wandering lonely.


Taking time


the only way he knows.


Leg hurting bad,


as he bends to pick a dog end


goes down to a bog to


warm his feet.


Feeling alone


the army's up the rode


salvation a la mode and


a cup of tea.


Aqualung my friend


don't start away uneasy


you poor old sod


you see it's only me.





Do you still remember


December's foggy freeze


when the ice that


clings on to your beard is


screaming agony.


And you snatch your rattling last breaths


with deep-sea diver sounds,


and the flowers bloom like


madness in the spring.