Thursday 20 November 2014

"P" IS FOR A "POEM" ABOUT SOMEONE WOT i KNOW

AT
one-twenty-five
a "P"int
and
on a "P"ension
there's a killing
to be made
today
 First "P"
after four
out the back
and
a roll-up
just as if
still at school
sharing a fag
behind
the bicycle sheds
with
 his seven brothers
competing
for who could "P"
the furthest
up the wall
or
over the blackberry bush
or
into the stream
AND
what is saved
on the
"P"rice of beer
will more than
"P"ay for
a taxi home
not that
one would dream
to leave
this rendezvous
at so
 early an hour
for
the last bus home
ONE-TWENTY-FIVE
muttering about
seven brides
for seven brothers
as office-girls
"P"ass-by
in Indian Summer
chic
over the town bridge
AND
he returns
to the "P"ub
for
another "P"int
adjusting
his leather belt
and shorts
satchel
across his shoulder.
* * * * *
bernard hemensley
(composed in the early hours)
@
golden goji hermitage
21 / november / 2014
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3 comments:

  1. not anyone i know? Feel i do though after reading the "P"oem through a couple of times! And must be a Weymouth poem methinks yet long ago Southampton suggested too...

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  2. No, not anyone you actually know....but if when you visited from OZ, he would've been one of the regulars on our old bus/route. And, yes, there are various scenes and places that are min(e)d in this poem. 3 hours, during the early hours, took no time at all, to work the poem into s'thing presentable....including how to designate a "bold" typeface to the "P", all thru the poem. Thanx "K" !

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  3. yes... the success of the characterization is reader's ability to hear & see him clearly... and that magic of the local intensely evoked actually becoming a universal... congrats!

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