Garden Sweets

Ants keep their Mars Bars under cool grey stones,

Spiders hang their wafers from their webs,

Whilst wasps eat their pear-drops from the inside out

And greenfly like their sherbet dusty white.

Worms like their liquorice to be curly,

Butterflies like their lollies to dissolve,

And slugs keep their jelly in their underwear –

No wonder it melts in there!

But I keep my sweets in a paper bag,

Or bulging in the pouch of my cheek,

Where the syrup drools and drips to the ground

Where my sweet-lipped friends can be found!