Green Things

There are green things in my bread, Mum
And I really can’t think why.
Perhaps it’s something rather awful
That’s been dropped down from the sky.
Is it a sign that the end is near
And how should I prepare?
I’d better eat my chocolate bar
And is my comic there?

There are green things in my bread, Mum,
It really is a scream.
Will we get into the papers?
Will I get to meet the Queen?
Have the Aliens landed?
Is it some kind of seed?
Will I become like one of them
Or turn into a weed?

There are green things in my bread, Mum,
Yellow and black things too.
But they're not so good as green things,
I think green is best, don’t you?
And what about this -
Perhaps it's a plot by the store
to kill off all the customers
So they can’t come back for more.

There are green things in my bread , Mum,
But no matter how I try
I can’t think who has put them there
Nor find the reason why.

Lynn Winter

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