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Saturday, 22 November 2025

One too many

If I smoked a cigarette

I'd take a pack of twenty

If I drank just to forget

I'd make sure I got my plenty


If I chew a liquorice sweet

I'd consume the whole damned packet

If I buy a suit so neat

I'd say, go on; wrap a second jacket


If I washed a sock or two

I'd make oddness from a pair

If I lived like some folk do

I'd stumble to find one so rare


If I loved a love so true

Only then my love would I dare