On the other side of town
Lived an old unhappy clown
He was drinking, and he cried
From his life he tried to hide

In a school not far from there
Some young kids played "truth or dare"
Ten more minutes left 'til class;
Ten more minutes on the grass

Meanwhile, in a nearby flat
Lived a lady and her cat
She went shopping once a week
Neighbours said she was a freak

Then there was the office man
He was following his plan:
Get a job, a car, a wife
Then he'd live his well-planned life

In a mansion made of stone
Sat a man, holding a phone
He'd been told his wife was dead
Many tears were still unshed

Then there was that artsy kid
No one knew him like I did
Well, perhaps these other blokes
But they didn't get his jokes

All these people in this town;
The boy, the kids, the man, the clown
Could have been alive today
If the invading aliens hadn't surprised and killed them all with their Super-Ultra-Death-to-everything-Chaos-&-Destruction-Ray ...

21/4 2007