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All Lit Up - Poems
From When I am Old Chris Mansell
When I am old
I will threaten
To buy a motorbike,
Unless I can have a Mustang, Dodge Viper
or a Ferrari.
When I get my car
I’ll drive like a hooligan through Mountain Ash,
Run over cats
and escape the FBI.