WORM’S EYE VIEW
lyrics and music by Roger Coghill
People, don’t squirm when I say I’m a worm!
It’s an innocent act when I stretch and contract.
And it’s really unfair I must say I despair.
Everyone I can see seems to look down on me.
Let me tell all of you, some good things that we do.
First,we don’t need no sperms, we’re hermaphrodite worms.
All farmers are misers when they buy fertilisers
So we bury dry leaves when they fall from the trees.
It’s a real painful toil when we eat through the soil,
But the holes that we leave helps the topsoil to breathe,
As we kill the bacteria that cause your diphtheria,
Cos’ your earth turns to clods without us arthropods.
Don’t cut us in two, that’s a mean thing to do
Or leave us to sob in the beak of some robin.
So have the good grace to give us some space
And though you might wonder, put us gently back under.
There’s a reason to try loving lumbriciae!
When your life is long over, as you nourish the clover,
As you’re turning to loam, we will construct our home
Though I hate to speak plain, in the depths of your brain.