068. When I Was An Elephant

When I was an elephant I made a football with my trunk the arm let out a violent sneeze and so created a ball of cheese And then came walking the ears of dogs building turkeys from metal logs one became a talking house and there sat knitting was an old grey mouse The needles produced a cat polishing its eye one and twenty horses baking a pie from the top there rose a car with a shiny golf ball covered in tar and from the crust there came a tree planted by a bumble bee The sting of its leg fell from its nose planting in a chin a purple rose the petals were eaten while the stem was scrubbed with brass to make a gem the leaves got pickled with yellow meat mixed with oil to make it sweet And out of the mixture came a snake eating lemons with a rake and from a tongue it got the rind of course it had left its behind in a sea horse made from bread which eats its leg to make a bed And through your ears you can see that none of this could ever be but nothing is as it would seem and with your feet you share your dreams