Haiku Train

[twoleftfeet]

To their grainy brains
a Thatcher is attaching
stolen milk bottles

[Jester]

stolen milk bottles -
calcium deficiency
lays waste to young bones.

[barrie]

Lays waste to young bones
and lays fat on fleshy ones.
Capitalism.

[Jester]

Capitalism -
one small step for man, a leap
backwards for mankind

[barrie]

'Backwards for Mankind'
is marked in God's instructions;
now it's time to start.

[Jester]

Now it's time to start
an evolution of the
heart and make it real.

[barrie]

heart, and make it real -
I have always loved to eat
something with a beat.

[twoleftfeet]

"Something with a beat?"
said the cannibal chef "Try
a half baked PC"

[barrie]

A half baked PC
is never quite as crusty
as an old sergeant.

[twoleftfeet]

As an old sergeant
I paid for the canteen food
with truncheon vouchers

(The old ones are the best (allegedly) )

[barrie]

To truncheon vouchers!
Let us all charge our glasses -
trumped up ones, of course

[twoleftfeet]

trumped up ones, of course
like the man with the weak heart -
resisted arrest

[barrie]

resisted arrest
but could never resist the
sweet charms of freedom

[twoleftfeet]

Sweet charms of freedom?
Number 1 in Iraq with
a bullet, by Blair

[barrie]

'A Bullet', by Blair.
"I wish I had a bullet."
he wrote - So do we.

[cameron]

He wrote - so do we
But really meant: doh ray me
Fa so la ti doh.

[barrie]

Fa so la ti doh?
You ain't got that Doh, Ray, Mi,
Woody Guthrie sang.

[cameron]

Woody Guthrie sang:
"There struck the worst dust storm that
Ever filled the sky".

[barrie]

Ever filled the sky -
Let's call it Eternity,
it's a long, long time.

[Jester]

it's a long, long time
since I sank a gin and lime -
still feeling sublime.

[barrie]

Still feeling sublime
after such a rotten rhyme?
You are jesting, Mick?

[Jester]

You are jesting , Mick?
Point taken, big stick - viral
attack left me thick!

[barrie]

Attack left me thick
as a brick, said Jethro Tull -
Bring me my broadsword.

[Jester]

Bring me my broadsword -
clear understanding would be
most welcome today

[barrie]

Most welcome today
will be tonight's arrival.
Bring me some moonshine.