Paul Warren Poems

What does it matter
If each of your waking moments
Is spent looking up
Waiting and wondering
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Tabby's star is 1300 light years from earth
And at times the light dims by 20% in its girth
This is happening again and scientists are busy
Collecting data whilst the Tabby's Star is hazy
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It was 1942 a year after the Pearl Harbour attack
When Hawaiian radar picked up a plane as a fact
So a patrol was scrambled to seek it out
And they encountered a P40fighter flying alone
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There was Louie the fly
Who'd want to fly by
There was Madge who
Soaked your hands in Palmolive goo
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My grandma really liked to cook
Scones and cream cakes she didn't need a book
And she always let me lick the spoon
Cooking with her was always over too soon
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As you get older
Do you see clearer now
Or is it that the clutter is less
Some things that seemed important
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The algorithms are at work today
Gathering information of what you do or say
Google and Facebook work away
Gathering data about you in every way
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I used to watch my mother
At night darning socks and things
And doing those chores she did
By the light of our black and white
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Floating around the town
Not looking up or down
Whistling a little tune
At night baying at the moon
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The Black Knight is in orbit at the South Pole near
And they say it had been there for two thousand years
Maybe it was put there by aliens visiting earth
Something went wrong and it was abandoned as no worth
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