old lady

I am a passenger n

this Old lady

she sits besides me

Hexcited to be on th' bus

She wants to talk

I want to read

Oh! What a beautiful morning!, she sez

My husband

I have a son in Canberra

It's the parking

I don't drive as much as I used to

My eyes are not that good

But he tells me, Mum, don't

It was at least six feet long

He had the most beautiful laugh

That was in the war you know

Passed away recently, she sez

I want to read

That was in the olde days, of course, she sez

I only have my cat now, she sez

I put the book away

I tell her about the cats

For although unlike some other peoples

I'm not that mad fond ov cats

Tho' the cats they seem fond enough ov me

Perhaps bizcoz I stink ov fish

They're allus coming over

To say hello and sniff

Rub themselves agin me

Catch a stroke

Wi' tails like the indian rope trick

Naked holes

Like the dot off an exclamation! mark

We saved this orphan baby kitty onced

Nobody's chile

Dying of starvation and total ate alive wi fleas

It wouldn't eat

So I called it Bobby Sands

I didn't think he'd mind

Wrapped it in a blanket

And forced fed it with a syringe

It recovered to become a great big lump

She nodded and agreed

I've taken you from your book, she sez

No, no, not at all

Look, the harbour bridge