On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 00:59:16 GMT, Mephistopheles
<no-fixed@address.net> wrote:
>'Timothy Winters'
>
>Timothy Winters comes to school
>With eyes as wide as a football-pool,
>Ears like bombs and teeth like splinters:
>A blitz of a boy is Timothy Winters.
>
>His belly is white, his neck is dark,
>And his hair is an exclamation-mark.
>His clothes are enough to scare a crow
>And through his britches the blue winds blow.
>
>When teacher talks he won't hear a word
>And he shoots down dead the arithmetic-bird,
>He licks the pattern off his plate
>And he's not even heard of the Welfare State.
>
>Timothy Winters has bloody feet
>And he lives in a house on Suez Street,
>He sleeps in a sack on the kithen floor
>And they say there aren't boys like him anymore.
>
>Old Man Winters likes his beer
>And his missus ran off with a bombardier,
>Grandma sits in the grate with a gin
>And Timothy's dosed with an aspirin.
>
>The welfare Worker lies awake
>But the law's as tricky as a ten-foot snake,
>So Timothy Winters drinks his cup
>And slowly goes on growing up.
>
>At Morning Prayers the Master helves
>For children less fortunate than ourselves,
>And the loudest response in the room is when
>Timothy Winters roars "Amen!"
>
>So come one angel, come on ten
>Timothy Winters says "Amen
>Amen amen amen amen."
>Timothy Winters, Lord. Amen
>
>Charles Causley
>
Thank you Mephi. :)
Lil Stinker
"just havin' fun!"
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