look there / in the park / on their homemade bench / over the fence / behind tha trees / similar old men / silent / we know this is because one is deaf / &c / same old pair one deaf one blind / our twins now grown old / oh so old / so terribly old / barely walk without dropping / minds almost gone / astonishingly they still manage to look after themselves / one paints / other toots tha flute / kids from the neighbourhood lookin afta them / leavin food / th ol man’s paintins they takes away ta sell / th ol flutey they wheels in a special chair / made themsels / through tha streets ta where folks’ll gather ta lisen / givin money / th paintins is ver pop-u-lar in tha district / an tha tunes ol Flutey draws out a h’self can turn tha stone blood a cruel men’s eyes ta tears / time he sang / nonsense rhyme bringin tears n turn a laughter / then flute sparkle out / folks git dancin / dance a tha helly-fants he call it / count a tha noise / clamp n clatter a feet he followed / breathin laughs n whispers / an then sudden he’d be asleep / jig abruptly cancelled / course tha boys generally treated their charges in a blatantly business like manner / seeminly valuin them fer tha moneys they made / so they talked amongst themsels late one evening / pushin tha dozing ol musician back ta his brother / seemed that not one spared a thought fer tha thoughts tha ol man dreamed / enthused instead over tha money they made an how they woulds spend dit / all-while tha ol drooler dreams a sound / aural wet dream / ta awake wif a start / gurglin / one boy / tha older / looks at ye / ta check ya aint gone done an died / satisfied yer still tickin he returns ta yon conversation / black tunnel closed again / puzzled look on tha groggy antique features / sightless eyes up turned ta wonder / I saw him / hand feels across rough woolen blanket / course! / in bed / black as ink / cough