“Lovers lie around in it
Broken glass is found in it
Grass
I like that stuff”

—  Adrian Mitchell

"Stufferation", from Adrian Mitchell's Greatest Hits (1991).
Other stanzas follow this pattern. Roger McGough wrote a version with the refrain "I like that stuff".

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British writer 1932–2008

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