Walter M Florey
listen my kiddies he's coming up fast
the birth of a grown man's no everyday story
but I know a guy name of Walter M Florey
and every five years he pickles his past
his past his past he prunes his own tree
all his friends who are friends and his friends who are jerks
all his happiness pity pleasure perks
in his office pain in his cell his sea
his shell his love lightness and being
everything todo you name it the works
and then when the night comes to spark all the stars
the canning is quiet he grows in the glass
of his Walter M Florey memorial jar
he comes sweet or dill get em while they last
© Michael Fleming
Tshaneni, Swaziland
December 1985
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