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Tea and crumpets
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Let's eat our crumpets in serenity


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TEA AND CRUMPETS


let's only eat nice things
like sweets
like minted chocolates

in the evenings

and wafers from cellophane bags


let's watch tennis on the lawn
dressed in fresh clean clothes
let's wear nice hats and roses
and pour tea from silver pots

let's not think of bad things
of nasty things

of hideous things

let's eat our crumpets in serenity

let's disinfect our baths and flushing systems
let's boil our waters, daughters and visitor's quarters
oh let's be good and clean

let's eat our crumpets in serenity

let's go to parties and to concerts let's be sweet

let's smile nice smiles and clap little claps

let's take little sips and chew little mouthfuls

let's make little children gasp little gasps and show home movies

oh let's be nice

why can't everybody think on nice things
good things

why can't we live in nice places
good places

why can't we be nice like the pictures in the hall?

oh let's be nice and eat crumpets in serenity

oh why can't everything around us STAY nice?

we'll make out cheques for charities
in the drawing room

we'll bake a cake for orphans
twice a year

bandages for the wounded
letters for the lonesome
parcels for pensioners prisoners and divorcees

let's flood the world with proper kindness and
keep all things nice

.............for always

and for us to eat crumpets

in serenity


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 Reviews of "Tea and crumpets"
Reviewed by Jim Dunlap
Reviewed on December 26, 2003
This strikes me as otherwordly and mildly sarcastic. Of course most of the world population lives in abject poverty, and many of them die every day. The problem is that we can only do so much to alleviate those things. I write about them all the time, but few read my writing (go look at my poem, The Inexorability of Malthusian Geometry and you'll see that very few bothered to read it.)

Reviewed by Elizabeth Taylor (Reader)
Reviewed on May 17, 2003
Right ! We can and do create our own reality. So why not pick the best for ourselves. Bravo, a thoughtful work.

Reviewed by Ted Sheridan (Reader)
Reviewed on May 17, 2003
We can do that but someone is still going to have to die, it's just the way the world turns. I really liked the nice thought.

Reviewed by m j hollingshead
Reviewed on May 17, 2003
i like this


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