(Heaton/Rotheray). She'd brought along the oranges. He'd brought the tea. They'd both brought along a sick-bag just in case. . The plate of chicken sandwiches.
(Heaton/Rotheray). This table has four sturdy legs. And a heart of very near wild oak. When others would have screamed out loud my friend. This one never even spoke.
(Heaton/Rotheray). When you're too old for the swings. You tend to choose the slide. And they never seem to warn you. The slide's your final ride. And when you're at the top of it.
Ginger Elvis Presley looked a fraction sad. Roaming the whole town from bin to bin. Well living on the streets wasn't all that bad. Where no-one seemed to know that he was King.
(Heaton/Rotheray). Here I walk, here I walk. Looking for an angel's wings in the den of the hawk. . Here I am, here I am. With a choice between an also ran and a sunbed tan.
(Heaton/Rotheray). If I walk like a fool, I've walked like that since school. But maybe it's the lure of the sea. Who knows the effect,. that whisky could've had on me.
Sadness has filled a lonely place. Before that there's just a hole. At least now there's sadness on my face. My lower lip has finally found it's role.