Why not experience leprosy first-hand?
There is deep water everywhere
Behind a virgin's eyes
And mermaids swim around within
And monitor their sighs
They monitor their sighs, my boys
They register each groan
They penetrate the fleshy thighs
But leave the mind alone
The was a story, years ago,
That posited, in anger
At the state of venal sin,
The crucial role of Bangor
The crucial role of Bangor, boys
The crucial role of Hull
You'll never find more sinners in
The Isles of Eigg or Mull
There will be cities, built up high,
Beyond the reach of science
Flesh-tone spires shall scrape the sky
Filled with ev'ry appliance
Fill'd with ev'ry 'ppliance, boys
To bake all kinds of pie
Cementing the alliance
On which they all rely
Thus we who, in the shallow end
Rest 'neath the water's skin
Like beauty, which, we all pretend
Is not so very thin
Is not so very thin, dear boys
Is not as thin as silk
It feels like water, 'til you're in
The cream upon the milk
Envoi
Who seeks the mermaid's crown
Should first ensure they will not drown
In the puddle at the edge of town
| Contributors: | fester, Roland, loaf, Beefy, Apsley, Barrymore's Ghost, Anon., P. |
| Poem finished: | 4th October 2002. |