LINES FOR THE GERMAN-GALWEGIAN GIRL

It�s all right Esther you don�t have to go any faster
For the past is another country that you�re leaving behind.
Ahead lies the misty Isle of Imagination, Green Imagination
As your mind keeps travelling on, but you know
Where are you going? �To a there if there is a �there�!�

What�s your hurry? Take your time, a lifetime
But a lifetime is sometimes - cut! Ease off, you don�t have to go
But you�ve got to leave that pain behind.
Was it a happy land? Living with your Da in such a lovely house
On the forest�s edge with a goldfish pond

And rabbits in a hutch then heart attack and your Dad is DEAD.
Life�s wicked plan, you�re left alone with only a loan
And a house to be sold, there�s no gold in returning sold!
You and your soul wandering if it�s going forward, mad or both?
Put your foot down Esther and go quicker than the pain

Ruining true you again and again, losing, starting over
As you go searching in another domain for peace.
In your van all your belonging packed but where
Do you belong? In some song I�ve yet to sing
Take one last look a bewitching thing

You�re back in your room playing a song by John
"Imagine there�s no countries�.."
"Turn it up," your father shouts as he clips the hedge
Then sitting in the sun he plays the accordion and yodels
Like a loon carried away on the breeze

To a neighbour who listens, he stops, she claps crying
�More, encore!� But he�s a shy bearded man who just shakes
His head and laughs, "Another time, another time,"
But there never was. Esther dear Esther, put your foot down
To the floor and go much faster as car lights pass by

Blinding you again and again, into the night�s dark heart
Drive on, into the light, into the dawn of a new country 
That waits�.for you, Dear Esther, for YOU.



 TO DODDER


�I saw the wallowing waters
Splash, catch and ensnare me
      In thoughts reflecting sky
          Positive sunshine
      Lost to the silver glimmer
         Of sparkling quivers
               Drizzling down my back
                     Gleaming
                  To satisfy thirst
                        I drank in the entire
                   R   I   V   E   R
               	 Hungering less
                           Leaving a dog�s carcass
                            �too salty
                              And boots, tyres, oildrums,
                            Frames, supermarket trolleys,
                                  Many beer and coke cans
                                       And an assortment of other
                                          Uneatable rubbish
                                      All left on a chocolate brown bed
                                         But my weak belly could not hold
                                               The mouldy cheese of
                                          A poisoned rat and a trout lept up
                                                    Tickling my throat inside
                                                  Triggering off a tidal wave
                                                              I THREW UP
                                                         And the Dodder returned
                                                        To its natural cut course�.

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