I’ll kick your tent up she said / with a table full of breadcakes hot from the oven / the sink and the shaving brush and a pan full of eggs / Saturdays on Boothferry were the best / the tenfoot and the back way where all your cousins played / a football rattles the garage doors and the greedy greasy seagulls flap and fly away / don’t forget your aunty / she can’t get to the shops / she’s wasting away in her concrete box / and the summer holidays are endless and hot / and packs of scabby dogs roam the field at the top / the big tomato turned around by small and sticky hands / the slides the swings the park / where your uncle’s sparked, half canned / there’s a firework tied to a stray cats tail / don’t venture out after dark / sports mail sports mail / City drew away at Port Vale / the top deck of the sixty six / I could go on for hours and days and months / when the memories come fast and thick / like Terry’s house at Christmas festooned with lights and glitter / every kids name on a balloon round the doorway / terry says its just for the bains but you can’t kid a kidder / I’ll kick your tent up she said / with a back room full of fiction / claimed from merchant ships / Joe Keller and the cannibal in the sewers of New York / never take off your coat and tie when the fists start to fly / the coppers always slap the cuffs on the man without a jacket / the police always come too late to stop it / Crown Court on a Friday and the Sullivan’s at teatime / a packet of biscuits reduced to rubble / your uncles a twat but he’s alright really / if he could only stay out of Mermaid / he’d never get in trouble ...