H 25

Hedgehogs hog the hedges,
roadhogs hog the roads:
I’d like to build a motorway
for badgers, frogs and toads,
with halts for hungry hedgehogs
at an all-night service station;
four lanes wide and free from man
right across the nation.
Free from oil and petrol fumes,
and free from motor cars,
to see the busy hedgehogs trot
underneath the stars.

From Dinner with the Spratts and Other Poems. Published by Methuen, 1991.