Tonight at noon <br />Supermarkets will advertise 3d EXTRA on everything <br />Tonight at noon <br />Children from happy families will be sent to live in a home <br />Elephants will tell each other human jokes <br />America will declare peace on Russia <br />World War I generals will sell poppies in the streets on November 11th <br />The first daffodils of autumn will appear <br />When the leaves fall upwards to the trees <br /> <br />Tonight at noon <br />Pigeons will hunt cats through city backyards <br />Hitler will tell us to fight on the beaches and on the landing fields <br />A tunnel full of water will be built under Liverpool <br />Pigs will be sighted flying in formation over Woolton and Nelson will <br />not only get his eye back but his arm as well <br />White Americans will demonstrate for equal rights in front of the Black House <br />and the Monster has just created Dr Frankenstein <br /> <br />Girls in bikinis are moonbathing <br />Folksongs are being sung by real folk <br />Artgalleries are closed to people over 21 <br />Poets get their poems in the Top 20 <br />Politicians are elected to insane asylums <br />There's jobs for everyone and nobody wants them <br />In back alleys everywhere teenage lovers are kissing in broad daylight <br /> <br />In forgotten graveyards everywhere the dead will quietly <br />bury the living <br />and <br />You will tell me you love me <br />Tonight at noon<br /><br />Adrian Henri<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/tonight-at-noon-for-charles-mingus-and-the-clayton-squares/
