my thanks go to Nigel
the sickly musical kid
who first got me
to put these words together
make my own lines
I was the roughhouse kid
the out & about’er
& Nigel was the indoors kind
the kid who couldn’t
absent from school
more than he was there
he’d get me to mime along
as he played his guitars & songs
early Beatles hits
derivative Stones & blues
& now he’s married
to a rock star
got them a couple of kids
if you mentioned my name
passed on my thanks
I feel sure
he’d say
who?
no fuss