Nico

I want an arm to gnaw on
I want a hand to bite
I want to pretend I'm asleep
when I'm looking for a fight

I want to eat what you are eating
I don't want chicken
I want to go through every door
I don't know what I'm missing

I want to sit on your shoulder
while you are trying to read
I want to crawl up your legs
while you are brushing your teeth

I want to clean myself
like i've got OCD
I want to relieve myself
while you are in the vicinity

I want to go crazy
at least 15 times a day
and I want to be lazy
while you lot are earning your pay

Frosted Leaf, Crumpled Leaf (left to disintegrate)

I fell down here
waiting for
the slightest breeze

How will you find me
buried so far
underneath

We bloomed so briefly
when we first kissed
last spring

But our colours faded
as soon as the sun
had gone in

And I watched each fall
one by one
until the end

Jumper Poem

I like jumpers
All types of jumpers
People jumpers
People in jumpers
People jumping in jumpers
Jumpers

Woolly jumping jumpers
Woolly jumping fully-jumpered jumping smiling jumpers
Just jumpers
Plain and simple jumpers
Complicated, pretty and sickly jumpers
Jumpers that are cheap and nasty
Smashing jumpers
Green jumpers
You wish you were a jumper
Don't laugh
You wish you were and that's a fact!

I like to pretend i'm a jumper
A jumping jumper
Watch me jump i'm a jumper!
Who'd rather be sat when they can be a jumper?

I'm joking now
The jumpers i really like
Are the type you can wear to keep you warm
They are 'functional jumpers'
They are worn for a purpose
But they can still be beautiful jumpers

You usually see old men in them
Because they know how to wear a jumper
And when you buy them second hand
They still smell of the last old man
But in that smell there is 'jumper knowledge'
The experience of jumpers which can't be bought
It can be obtained only through years of 'jumper dedication'

Now I wish this was something i had
But as much as i love jumpers
I still like hats quite a bit too
And if i had to choose between them
As silly as this may sound
I would probably choose to be a hat
Because a hat can still be useful when sat
And a jumper is only any good when he's off the ground

Sketch

Tomorrow shall I chance
to sit amongst the dirt & pigeon droppings?
Shall I draw some old, grey statue
while above me they are planning my downfall?

And when I look up to watch them fly
I'll find they've gone and sullied
another one of my sketches

Balloon

Even if you weren't wonderful
and your shoes weren't cool
even if your hair was grey
I'd still love you

But because you're as wonderful
as a lovely blue balloon
by the time I found you
you were halfway to the moon