I ate some strange old mushrooms

Got chased off a shark

It jumped outta my beer bottle

And began to bark

 

I ran through a dying mist

And into a wall

Then into the deepest sleep

I began to fall.

 

Into strawberry Fields

With lemon drizzle streams

And coconut shells

Full of incoherent dreams 

 

Oh

What a strange

Old day

Making conversations with nothing to say.

 

What a rare

Old time

Meeting all the demons from the cracks in my mind 

 

And what a place 

To be

Paying the ferryman

Just to be me

 

My mind's gone astray, it's a

 

Strange - old - day!

 

And you told me we were finished

But your head was so diminished

The only thing left were your lips

 

And they said we were over

Cos I was never sober

But floating through the air came some riffs

 

So I brought my air guitar

Showed her how to be a star

But she ran straight outta the door

 

But I was so gone

T. Rex Bang a Gong

That I passed right out on the floor

 

And I awoke in my bed

Laid beside my own head

And it frowned with such disappointment

 

I said, please leave me be!

It's not me that you see

But, yet another small fly

In life's ointment!

?

 

 

 

Stephen Atkinson 2021