I was only ten
When they dropped the bomb.
Splat!
‘Put your head between your knees.
Hold your nose.
Make yourself small.’
My parents tried it.
Splat!
‘Think of a number.
Double it. Add fourteen.
Divide it by the number you first thought of.’
I had a go at that one.
Splat!
A funny man, with a turned-up hat:
‘I say, I say, I say,
My wife’s gone to the West Indies.
Jamaica?
No, she went on her own accord.’
Splat!
Last week on TV a man,
With a little beard and deerstalker,
Showed us how to swat a fly.
Just that morning, I did it perfectly.
Splat!
