Why should I let the toad work<\/i>
\nSquat on my life?
\nCan’t I use my wit as a pitchfork
\nAnd drive the brute off? <\/p>\n
Why should I let the toad work
\nSquat on my life?
\nCan’t I use my wit as a pitchfork
\nAnd drive the brute off? <\/p>\n
Six days of the week it soils
\nWith its sickening poison –
\nJust for paying a few bills!
\nThat’s out of proportion. <\/p>\n
Lots of folk live on their wits:
\nLecturers, lispers,
\nLosers, loblolly-men, louts-
\nThey don’t end as paupers. <\/p>\n
Lots of folk live up lanes
\nWith fires in a bucket,
\nEat windfalls and tinned sardines.
\nThey seem to like it. <\/p>\n
Their nippers have got bare feet,
\nTheir unspeakable wives
\nAre skinny as whippets – and yet
\nNo one actually starves<\/i>. <\/p>\n
Ah, were I courageous enough
\nTo shout, Stuff your pension<\/i>!
\nBut I know, all too well, that’s the stuff
\nThat dreams are made on: <\/p>\n
For something sufficiently toad-like
\nSquats in me, too;
\nIts hunkers are heavy as hard luck,
\nAnd cold as snow, <\/p>\n
And will never allow me to blarney
\nMy way of getting
\nThe fame and the girl and the money
\nAll at one sitting. <\/p>\n
I don’t say, one bodies the other
\nOne’s spiritual truth;
\nBut I do say it’s hard to lose either,
\nWhen you have both.<\/p>\n
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