THE TROUBLE WITH GERANIUMS
By Mervyn Peake
is that they’re much too
red!
The trouble with my toast is that
it’s far too full of bread.
The trouble with a diamond
is that it’s much too
bright
The same applies to fish and stars
and the electric light.
The troubles with the stars I see
lies in the way they fly.
The trouble with myself is all
self-centred in the eye.
The trouble with my looking-glass
is that it shows me, me.
there’s trouble in all sorts of things
where it should never be.