Reasons To Be Tearful
	23rd November 2001
		When decades have come and gone Will the dawn chorus awe poets still? Or will augean cockroaches Make do with dreary hum? It's ten past ten on their autocue But five to midnight in our hearts Fear the howling Armageddon They'll bw grinning when it starts Whwn centuries have passed Will the rabbit dance and prance? Or shall blackened charcoal soil Greet the morning sun? It's ten past ten on their autocue But five to midnight in our hearts Fear the howling Armageddon They'll bw grinning when it starts When Halley next comes a-calling Will we glimpse his milky way? Or will he pass a scorched earth Cratered by shooting scars? It's ten past ten on their autocue But five to midnight in our hearts Fear the howling Armageddon They'll bw grinning when it starts