Tomatoes

[simplemind]

Tomatoes

People think I am a cannibal
But you know what people say

People see I?ve got red gums but who has
White ones
Up the tomatoes

People say there are not nearly so many tourists
Now
But you know
This isn?t America and nobody
Has the money

People think it?s my fault and are scared
But look
My teeth are white not red
I?ve not eaten anybody

People are rotten they say I scoff
Baked tourists
Or maybe grilled
Baked or grilled I asked
They don?t say anything just keep looking uneasily at my gums
Up the tomatoes

Everyone knows in an agricultural country there?s agriculture
Up the vegetables

Everyone knows that vegetables
Well you can?t live on the vegetables you grow
And that I am quite well developed for someone underdeveloped
Miserable scum living of the tourists
Down with my teeth

People suddenly surrounded me
Tied me up
Threw me down
At the feet of justice
Cannibal or not cannibal
Answer

Ah you think you are so clever
So proud of yourself


Well we?ll see I?m going to settle your account
Have you anything to say
Before you are sentenced to death

I shouted up the tomatoes

People are rotten and women curious you know
There was one of these in the curious circle
In her rasping voice sort of babbling like a saucepan
With a hole in it
Shrieked
Slit open his belly
I?m sure father is still inside

There weren?t any knives
Naturally enough among the vegetarians
Of the western world
So they got a Gillette blade
And carefully
Slit
Slat
Plop
Slit open my belly

Inside flourishing rows of tomatoes
Watered by streams of palm wine
Up the tomatoes