Growing Pies

Growing pies, is it on trees
Or on stakes like beans and peas
Or hedgerows, just like blackberries
For us to pick whene’er we please

Or do the pies only thrive
In the shade of money trees
I wonder, will the pies survive
The discontent of winter freeze

Maybe we just dig them up
When they have grown sufficient size
And roughly slice and serve them up
With mashed potatoes or with fries

Green-fingered Britain, do not fret
There is no need to agonise
To Liz’s garden we’re in debt
We just need to grow some pies

Suella & Rachel

Suella dreams of deportation
Traffic to another nation
Cruelty to refugees
Her obsession, how did we
Ever end up here?

Rachel waiting in the wings
Hums the tune Suella sings
Cruelty to refugees
Shadow policy with speed
Don’t ever end up here

Truss’s Conference

She hit the ground
Forgot to run
Squeezed families
And banged the dumb

The lady’s not for
Oh, she did
On crazy Kwasi’s
Top rate quid

(Not his fault either
That’s Chris Philp
It’s to the Chief Sec
That they tilt)

Now benefits
And mortgages
Got one of those
Ain’t you Liz?

The lady’s not for
Oh, she’s done
She hit the ground
Forgot to run

Liz’s Pie

Liz’s pie is sliced unevenly
Liz is slicing fast and greedily
The biggest slices unbelievably
To the richest irretrievably

Liz’s pie is sliced unevenly
Liz is slicing hard and grievously
The slimmest slices butchered evilly
To those who need them most appreciably

Liz’s pie is sliced unevenly
Equality is not for her you see
Liz trusts in trickle-down unreasonably
So Liz’s pie is sliced unevenly

Think Tank

Think tank
Think tank
Take it to the brink tank
Take a picture in a tank
And send it to the press

Think tank
Think tank
Nod and a wink tank
Shorting city pound tank
The bank is not impressed

Think tank
Think tank
Let the country sink tank
They’re calling it a Kwar-tank
He’s calling it success

Think tank
Think tank
Theories that stink tank
She’ll be gone in a blink tank
What a bloody mess

Collective Nouns

A murder of crows
A compendium of stories
A parliament of owls
An incompetence of Tories

A reverence of vicars
A selection of alternatives
A righteousness of clergymen
A corruption of Conservatives

An ambush of tigers
An embarrassment of superlatives
A pride of lions
A disgrace of Conservatives

A cartload of chimpanzees
A happiness of glories
A band of gorillas
A circus of Tories

Dead End Friends

A story as old as Stan.

RIP Molly.

Molly shouted into the wind
But the wind never replied
Molly shouted louder but the wind never hears
The wind just blows on by
All Molly needed was someone to listen….

So, Molly sent a message to her dead-end friends
Dead-end friends are right on trend
Molly sent a message to her dead-end friends
But dead-end friends can’t heal…
‘Cause dead-end friends aren’t real

Molly ran down a one-way street
With something terrible to say
Molly ran harder but nothing came back
Nothing ever comes the other way
All Molly needed was someone to listen

So, Molly sent a message to her dead-end friends
Dead-end friends are right on trend
Molly sent a message to her dead-end friends
But dead-end friends can’t heal…
‘Cause dead-end friends aren’t real

The wind, it never listens
The street, it never changes
The wind, it never listens
And Molly
Was ready
To be among the stars…

Molly sent a message to her dead-end friends
Dead-end friends are right on trend
Molly sent a message to her dead-end friends
But dead-end friends can’t heal…
‘Cause dead-end friends aren’t real

Molly sent a message to her dead-end friends
Dead-end friends are right on trend
Molly sent a message to her dead-end friends
But dead-end friends can’t heal…….
‘Cause dead-end friends aren’t real

Derek Joins the Queue

Derek’s in the queue
With a bag of whisky miniatures
He’ll need something warm
To get him through the night
He didn’t think his hip flask
Would make it through security
So long as he’s not too pissed
He should be alright

Derek’s in the queue
With a plastic union jack
But flags are not allowed
So he’ll drop it in the street
A patriotic queue
Should have flags, Derek reckons
A patriotic queue
Should stay on its feet

Derek’s in the queue
And there’s too many tourists
They’re the only reason
There’s a sixteen hour wait
It’s an Englishman’s duty
Not a visitor attraction
To be paying your respects
At a lying in state

Derek’s in the queue
And they’ve given him a wristband
I’m not a bloody number
He muttered to the scout
But it’ll come in handy later
When his bladder starts to fail him
They’ve laid on extra toilets
For his big day out

Derek’s in the queue
He’s being part of history
It’s a big occasion
But he doesn’t understand
Why the folk all around him
Are making new queue buddies
Talking to other people
Wasn’t something that he’d planned

Derek’s in the queue
She’s been the Queen all his life
But he’s not a fan of Big Ears
Or Big Ears’s wife
Or Sweaty Andy for that matter
Or failed soldier Eddie
But he reckons that Harry
Might be alright

Derek’s in the queue
And he’s getting cold and tired
But no one likes to say
They might’ve made a big mistake
In the morning he’ll be done
And on a train back to Clacton
With a story for his grandkids
And his good-for-nothing mates

Untitled (15 September 2022)

Queuing like a Moscow McDonald’s
Shut down like a Norwich cycle rack
Silenced like Morrisons’ checkout bleeps
Called off like a League Two football match

Cancelled like an RMT strike day
Changed like Kesteven bin collections
Suspended like buskers on the underground
Cut like Met Office weather projections

Stopped like a Regency Town House clock
Held like a hostage in CenterParcs
Postponed like guinea pig awareness
Censored like republican remarks

Queue E2

The queue is ten miles long
From Lambeth Bridge to Southwark Park
Queue in the light, queue in the dark
The queue is ten miles long

The queue is ten miles long
You can view the queue on YouTube
The red button, Insta and Twitter too
The queue is ten miles long

The queue is ten miles long
Reported hourly on the news
Don’t overdo it but you can bring booze
The queue is ten miles long

The queue is ten miles long
With issued wristbands to leave the queue
To join a queue for a Portaloo
The queue is ten miles long

The queue is ten miles long
The manifestation of a queuing nation
The stewards recommend dehydration
The queue is ten miles long

The queue is ten miles long
No sleeping bags, tents or chairs
No flowers, candles or Paddington Bears
The queue is ten miles long

The queue is ten miles long
Except for MPs and their guests
Who just swan in ahead of the rest
The queue is ten miles long

The queue is ten miles long
what3words: bloody.long.queue
With a shorter one at Tate Britain too
The queue is ten miles long

The queue is ten miles long
With a minute at the end in view of the box
Exit the hall via the gift shop
The queue is ten miles long