| Francis Alabadalejo woke up one morning and
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| prayed to the virgin that hung on the wall
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| with eyes full of pleading and knees a door knocking,
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| he told her the dream that had left him in terror
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| something that couldn’t be reasoned at all
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| «I saw me a woman, her eyes they were smiling,
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| her lips were on fire, her tongue was ice
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| she beckoned me on, with a finger of bones,
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| her flesh was of leather and not very nice
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| he woke up in fear and sweat beads were gleaming and
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| knew in his heart that something was wrong but the
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| virgin smiled down with eyes of compassion he
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| left feeling better and second to none
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| Francis Alabadalejo is smiling
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| Francis Alabadalejo is laughing
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| Francis Alabadalejo feels second to none
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| So he came to the hospital, where he was working and
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| put on his coat of a hessian brown
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| the minutes were spinning, until it was tea time
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| resting his feet on a chair in the corner
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| smoking and passing the papers around
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| young men and maidens, old men and children
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| babies in arms and arms hung in slings
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| old ladies for x-ray, for medicine and massage, to
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| name but afew of their favourite things
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| the noise of the hospital rolling about him,
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| the synthetic hiss, of rubber shod wheels
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| the batter of doors and the murmer of voices and
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| nobody knows how the next person feels Francis Alabadalejo is smiling
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| Francis Alabadalejo is laughing
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| Francis Alabadalejo feels second to none
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| Said the path lab to Francis, go get you a barrow and
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| carry this package to where we shall say and
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| he spied a long parcel all tied up in brown paper
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| nothing to look at and then not even thinking
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| he loaded his barrow and pushed it away
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| rounding the corner the barrow wheel tilted the
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| cold eyes were gleaming and Francis was running
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| filling the air with the sound of his screaming, and
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| stretched on the ground an assortment of pieces, the
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| face in the nightmare, when he had been sleeping, lay
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| lifelessly gazing blue eyed at the sky
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| Francis Alabadalejo is running
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| Francis Alabadalejo is flying
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| Francis Alabadalejo will never return |