Katie

I had an imaginary friend called Katie,

Who helped me make Earl Grey tea,

Which we drank out of plastic cups,

On the drawing room settee,

She was a quirky girl, was Katie,

And she believed aliens existed,

And told me of worlds where green men and red women,

Mutually co-existed,

Then they told me,

There’s no such thing as Katie,

And I wept for I missed my oldest friend,

Until they made me read of stars and galaxies,

And quasars in Physics and Chemistry,

And I set out to explore Mars, on a craft with astronauts three,

Me, my co-worker and my dearest friend Katie

The Bilge Master