John Carter Brown Poems

Mirror Mirror on the wall
Do you even care at all?
Every question you reject
Even if we genuflect.
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Little juvenile snobs
Are such terrible things,
They get uppish and don't give two hoots;
So you cut them hard back
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Is there anybody out there with a baby
That can cry as much as this one on my arm?
Seems there's nothing I can do to stop him screaming,
Seems there's nothing I can do to keep him calm.
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I haven't got a daughter
I've got a telly-blob;
Ping-pong balls instead of eyes
Crisps stuck in her gob;
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Swimming is an art form, where
Every movement made requires great
Precision, or you may sink.
Training your body is
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Stay very still
If you have an
X-ray.
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Maroon, one meaning of which is to
Abandon, has another, and
Really neat definition: that
Of a reddish-brown,
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Daddy, daddy, why fly so much
Do you want to be a bird?
People cannot fly daddy
At least, that's what I've heard;
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A little shop, upon a busy road it used to stand,
we used it for rehearsals when we were in a band;
Young we were and very keen to get up on a stage,
music was the driving force, and it was all the rage.
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My Father taught me how to make a slip-knot
it took a little while I must confess;
my empty brain just couldn't really grasp it
deficient in grey-matter, my best guess.
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