East Enders Wives

We met by chance by the row river sign Our soft fire danced as our tea leaves dried She hatched our plans in the atmospheric times Said, "Let's give up sacrifice this land Well, that joke's long, it's been spent" Before the bagpipes played We kept cool in the parasol shade Your gum on my pain at my tender age East enders wives And hidden in the fox thorn blind We grew old as the fox trailed by Sheep in the cold shielding our gold Sipping on milk and water like She packed our bags on arbitrary times And waved like a flag from the white star line On more than will though I self-apologize We both been untrue but I'm still counting on you Like an invisible rosary And as the past and all plans are undone Slowly sank like a shipwrecked sun Ridges and ropes, burning man throats Burned up the sky Fires hang as the black birds fell Sorrow rang like the church-yard bells And as the trees smoking living And all our dads died