Notes for My Teenage Daughter
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Notes for My Teenage Daughter

..My memory fades like weathered snaps,

The freckles made are at my back,

The sun has left an ageing clue,

To brighter days when I held you,

Now teenage ways are cutting through..

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Snail
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Snail

..Up and up went the bird

Though it’s strange, not unheard

That the air put the snail’s foot at ease

He’d be dinner for sure

But the wind held his cure

So he unfurled his foot in the breeze..

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A Fool’s Heart
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A Fool’s Heart

..I search the stars through misty eyes

Ships in the night reach foreign skies

My stomach teased by butterflies

A fool's heart jokes but can't tell lies..

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San Tau Tsuen
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San Tau Tsuen

..we set off slowly to a hill and a bend

but dropped a picture of a dear friend

along came a shiny new Mercedes Benz

with cutting smiles over knuckles and gems..

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Dumbo
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Dumbo

I can't smell the char

I can't see the scorch

Cos I clean my boots

On my neighbour's porch..

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Donald’s Gold
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Donald’s Gold

..But men with needs . Turn tides and sands

Their referendums . Scorch the lands..

Replacing seeds . Of life for brands

and fools rush in . with cold press pans..

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Just Desserts
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Just Desserts

..She stood in fur so fresh it purred

And hung her wealth from hems to ears

The market hack had found her niche

From trade she'd made with Beijing riche..

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