In a cold cottage by a wild shore
A Californian girl with toothache, I saw
it was 1969  and we were advised to drink
A fortified wine. Fortified by
C16H16N2O2 Lysergic acid.

Which we duly did, sharing.
I took her to the emergency
Dentist who was a very nice
Anglolan. We talked about
The war against the Portuguese
As I saw the spiders from Mars
David Jones was later to notice,

Since then the world has
Remained very much the same
The weird and wonderful place it always was.
Just me being semi-detached
And open-minded. A lover
Of dogs and children.
There's a time and place
for everybody we love.
It is here. Today.