LITTLE MAN, WHAT NOW?
(Morrissey/Stephen Street)

An afternoon nostalgia
television show
you spoke in silhouette
(but they couldn't name you)
though the panel were 
very polite to you  
oh, but I remembered you

Friday nights, 1969
ATV - you murdered every line
too old to be a child star
too young to take leads
four seasons passed
and they AXED you
nervous juvenile
(WON'T SMILE!)
What became of you?
did that swift eclipse
torture you?
a star at eighteen
and then - suddenly gone
down to a few lines
in the back page
of a faded annual
oh but I remembered you
I remembered you