Three thirty on a sick summer's day
  I round myself staring at a Newcastle bus stop
  A total stranger in a herringbone suit
  Asked me the time through his cigarette lighter
  Fifteen years later on a Wednesday night
  l round myself dreaming in a Manchester night-club
  A total stranger in a luminous tracksuit
  Gives me a kiss and he tastes of aluminium
  Then he's gone
  And in his place a cat with green eyes
  A cat with no tall at all
  Just a very sad expression on his race
  Mandarin quotes on a wrought iron gate
  I'm ringing the doorbell, but the petrol keeps leaking
  A total stranger in a cashmere coat
  Tells me politely, "Your wife is on fire"
  A family outing at the Gosforth Park Hotel
  The girl in the kitchen is working a job scheme
  l told my wife I'm sure I've seen her before
  She told me I kissed her al a Newcastle bus stop
  Then I was gone
  And in my place a cat with green eyes
  A cat with a tale to tell