Meadowhead Bard

Random and surreal poetry satire and short stories.

Down the Highway.

If I had a freeway billboard, I’d panic, I’d have materialised in the USA, we have motorways where I live. We don’t really have billboards in the UK either just the odd decrepit caravan or trailer advertising some obscure product or service littering up a field. Maybe that decrepit vehicle may have “Just Stop Oil” daubed on it, but it’s usually too far away far the rich to wind down the window of their three ton monster car and spit on it, I’m sure they would if they could.

A bit of Dylan “Down the Highway, down the tracks, down the road to ecstasy, I followed you beneath the stars hounded by your memory and all your all raging glory. “ From the track Idiot Wind” Blood on the Tracks album. Sorry to repeat this but probably the best track of the best album ever recorded. That’s if you can tolerate Dylan’s voice my friend.

Bill Board ? I couldn’t resist, I’m sure you know this fellow or someone like him.

Bill Bored.

Bill Bored, he’s a really good gainsayer
I once squatted a fly, he’s a dragon slayer
I’m better at cooking eggs by far
He only ever eats caviar

I once had tonsillitis, oh it hurt oh flipping heck !
Bill though had it in both feet and three times in his neck
We’ve got a four bed house in Birkenhead
I’ve got a mansion in Scotland is what he said

Of my old car there’s only ten left on the road
His much rarer than that, rarer than a five legged toad
I get my suits from Savile Row
Oh yes ! He says I taught those folks to sew

Bill, my wife you know is a well known model
He’s got a harem that will set your mind a boggle
I’d been looking a my watch, going on ten to ten…………His watch was in London you know, it is called Big Ben

I’ve got two kids Bill, they both grew up a dream
Oh really says Bill I’ve got eleven, a professional football team
Did you know Bill I had my own business ?
He says, I owned Tesla before Elon Musk oh yes !

Bill, do you know that windbag billionaire, name of Accordion Bellows ?
Yes I do he says, Oh I said, because there’s really no such fellow
It’s funny you know I never saw Bill after that
Maybe he lives on the moon with some famous big fat cat.

All words Meadowhead Bard.

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