Still Life by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview

Still Life

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Dainties in a jam-jar, Parson's colour in the sky

Water in a fountain doesn't get me very high

Moby Dick and Albert making out with Captain Bligh

So you know what you know in your head

Will you, won't you, do you

Don't you know when a head's dead?

What a bringdown

Winter leader Lou is grownin', Hampstead's in the north

Betty B's been wearin' daisies since the twenty-fourth

Wears a gunner when there's one more coming forth

And you know what you know in your head

Will you, won't you, do you

Don't you wanna go to bed?

What a bringdown

There's a tea leaf about in the family

Full of nothin', their fairy tale

There's a tea leaf a-floatin' now for Rosalie

They'll believe in ding-dong bell

Take a butchers at the dodginesses of Old Bill

Aristotle's orchestra are living on the pill

One of them gets very, very prickly when he's ill