i remember

i remember back when cups and saucers
dressed in ties and suits
and when cameras, nails and albatross
were classified as fruits

i remember, it was long ago
when birthdays came at night
and when to be wrong was easily
the only way to be right

i recall, do you, the days
when number ten came before nine
and were counted among solids
such as water, beer and wine

i think it was so long ago
remember, it was true
when north was south and east was west
and i was really you