
You might have to have certain music tastes or kids of a certain age to get this..
Midsummer and the neighbours are singing I'm just a teenage dirtbag Sadly only the latter part is true (Looking at my fingernails And reflection in the algae-covered lily pond) Poppies are bursting from the cracks While the bees, bored with lavender and roses, Dally with the stranger sweets of honeydew on plum tree leaves Chamomile and feverfew and ox-eye daisy Try to stare each other out While cornflower boldly faces down the sky Until it drops on harebell's slender stems. The lawn succumbs to sunshine spread of bird's foot trefoil and The morning glory mocks the bindweed creeping over from next door While past decades of rebellion float over from the flats behind Along with a Speckled Wood. The sparrow on the feeder ignores the outrage of The tits in the Leylandii hedge While hoverfly suckle nipplewort and Cabbage whites get frisky in nasturtiums.. Who am I to judge? The blackbird chuckles with anxious greed at ripening strawberries And the neighbour playing Basket Case by Green Day You and me both, blackbird, Melodramatic fools Carrying our children's vanished youth In amongst the daisies