Spike Milligan Poems

What happened to the boy I was?
Why did he run away?
And leave me old and thinking, like
There'd been no yesterday?
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English Teeth, English Teeth!
Shining in the sun
A part of British heritage
Aye, each and every one.
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If I could write words
Like leaves on an autumn forest floor,
What a bonfire my letters would make.
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I cannot
and I will not
No, I cannot love you less
Like the flower to the butterfly
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American Detectives
Never remove their hats
When investigating murders
In other people's flats.
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The people who live
On the Oojah-ka-Piv
Stand around in bundles of nine
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Elephants are contagious!
Be careful how you tread.
An Elephant that's been trodden on
Should be confined to bed!
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Go away girl, go away
and let me pack my dreams
Now where did I put those yesteryears
made up with broken seams
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Young are our dead
Like babies they lie
The wombs they blest once
Not healed dry
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Two children (small), one Four, one Five,
Once saw a bee go in a hive,
They'd never seen a bee before!
So waited there to see some more.
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