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March 6, 2013
Wearing a face-shadowing black fedora,
Percoughalees was wheeled in through
the airport doors, where he immediately
spotted Brubellgot stepping out of the
lift from the private staff stores
He was accompanied by Nodsincquento,
his co-pilot for the night flight,
both just having arrived on duty, and
making Percoughalees smile with delight.
Being injured was to prove adventageous,
as, after handing over his boarding pass,
Percoughalees was immediately prioritised,
only to find himself sat in First Class!
The upgrade was quite unexpected,
but he kept silent and went with the flow.
And oh, how his heartbeat raced, when he
saw Mendotta walk across the apron, below.
Having his foot in plaster had its uses,
he later, cunningly began to think,
as he snuggled down under his blanket, after
spying Mendotta, sensuously sipping her drink!
She cried ‘Not me’,
‘No, t’is not I,
who caused you grief
or spiked your eye’.
‘Please take this olive
branch from the tree,
I lie, I do,
You are right
It was me’.
He needed her now he was stuck in his chair,
with only his zimmer to go anywhere –
Well about time too.
He wanted her now he was so house-bound,
with only Jack and Billy coming around –
Well about time too.
He loved her now that the others were dead,
and she was the only one left in his bed –
Well about time too.
He knew why now she felt bitter and twisted,
When to that damned club he had enlisted.–
Well about time too.
Halleluiah
So that’s it then, the end of an era,
all finished, there’s no going back.
Seconds from now he’ll turn and leave,
becoming the saddest joker in the pack.
What they had, they knew, was priceless.
A chance meeting and then he moved in.
The house for a while rang with laughter,
but time now, to take defeat on the chin.
They both gave it full-on commitment,
and for a time lived out their dream.
Nothing could ever compare to it,
but it’s over, and now tears stream.
Parting is such agonising sorrow, and never
more so than when it’s the end of the line.
Their paths mustn’t ever cross again, so
at each other they look, for the very last time.
February 26, 2013
It began as no more than an inkling,
a co-incidence, a random chance, but
then it started to occur more regularly,
and at each other, they all would glance.
The changes had been disguised subtly,
and slipped in, so as not to be seen,
and then others recognised the similarities,
commenting on what they saw on screen!
Each line copied was being recorded,
which the thieves clearly failed to see,
and with evidence mounting daily,
a clear cut case this was going to be.
February 24, 2013
The strongest won’t sustain his strength.
The wildest, will in time, mellow.
The self obsessive will be made to share,
and the loud mouth, no longer bellow.
The nit picker will drive himself bonkers.
The squabbler will lose his objective mind.
The one with the fierce, competitive streak,
will become last, off the starting line.
The hunter will find himself incarcerated.
The rambler will lose all sense of direction.
The romeo will become a father, and wish
to God, he had used some protection.
What bitter sweet experience
it is to feed the birds, for I love
the swans the best, and for others,
have rather rude words.
I arrived with loaves of bread, that in
truth, do total many, but returned home
feeling saddened, thinking of that one
cygnet, who didn’t get any.
Out of nowhere the swans were joined by
ducks with beaks that plucked like tweezers,
and those dreaded Canadian geese arrived,
without passports or up to date visa’s
The law of the ‘fastest and the fittest’,
exists in the calm of the picturesque river,
and that vulnerable cygnet preys on my mind,
until I can return and to her, deliver.
February 19, 2013
Percoughalees was awakened
by a tapping on the door, and
diving out of bed, skidded, on
a stray sock lying on the floor.
In pain, he screeched out loudly, as
his foot twisted, before hitting the wall,
whereupon the chambermaid entered,
then quickly made an emergency call.
‘Your ankle, it needs attention’,
she said, with a voice so charmed.
‘The medics will be here presently,
so please don’t be alarmed’.
Percoughalees was feeling furious,
more with himself, for oversleeping,
but he knew his foot was broken, and
today’s plans, he wouldn’t be keeping.
He felt sure Mendotta, after breakfast,
would have strolled through Central Park,
before checking out of her hotel, even
though her flight was not until after dark.
Percoughalees needed to be at the airport
before Mendotta took to the sky, to
be certain she was on board Brubellgot’s
flight, heading towards Uruguay.
‘Could this be divine intervention, for
thumping Unkonkey in St Mark’s Square’,
he thought, as he travelled downtown,
in such agony, he felt he might swear.
Ditch the pastry,
ditch the crumble,
prevent your tummy
from doing a rumble.
Ditch the digestives,
and chocolate too,
eat plenty of fruit and
you’ll easily pooh.
Try five a day of
veg. red and green, and
become the slimmest
you’ve ever been.
Discover those hip bones
you had when aged twenty,
when size ten was you
and guys queued aplenty.
Into your food cupboards
put only the best, and
soon you’ll look great in
your knickers and vest.
February 17, 2013
In an effort to leave the past behind,
too forward thinking he started looking.
Hence, missing out on what was in front
of his eyes, that had burnt to a crisp,
through overcooking.