What I Saw

I’ll tell you what I did in town
I saw a greengrocer in the underground
with his pockets full of oranges
a paperboy yawned
so you could see his tonsils;
there was one old football boot,
lying in City Square
and round the ‘Island’ came the man outside
the Odeon with blue hair
riding on a moped with uniform flying.
A hamster saw a parrot sneeze
the shop ‘blinds’ flapped
and an oil-tanker squealed
the peanut man
lost a bag beneath a bus’s wheels
‘Watch it!’ a girl shouted,
his tray was slipping and a taxi hooted
‘O help me, then,’ he called out
I said, ‘Where?, I’m sorry, where?’
And forty thousand pigeons climbed into the air.