Tuesday, August 26, 2003
Mal Colston: an epitaph
In your career you flew – lower than a vulture over Lhasa
It is better to be upgraded than to arrive, or even to have a destination
You thought it time to redeem your own sky-burial
when you saw Pauline’s rorting on-the-wall
And after all, with four years worth of frequent-dier points
you'd have to be a shoe-in for seat 1A on the Styx Ferry
In your career you flew – lower than a vulture over Lhasa
It is better to be upgraded than to arrive, or even to have a destination
You thought it time to redeem your own sky-burial
when you saw Pauline’s rorting on-the-wall
And after all, with four years worth of frequent-dier points
you'd have to be a shoe-in for seat 1A on the Styx Ferry
