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August 15, 2012
‘You’ll feel better in a while’,
they said, after he died.
But I had to grieve my own way,
and still felt him by my side.
‘You’ll come to terms with you loss’,
they said, as time went on.
But no different did I feel,
than when the day he’d gone.
‘You’ll get used to life alone’
they said, as months went by.
But with my heart broken in two,
I bade my last goodbye.
August 14, 2012
They always called it the ‘Doo-Fries-Dooby’ –
a word from childhood that’s stayed in her mind.
It used to live under the bed,
until they moved house and left it behind.
Forward thinking, projected planning.
Spread sheets full of hope.
Whizz kids tell us a storm is coming.
In a ‘meltdown’ will we cope?
Let’s stop this dilly-dallying,
and beating about the bush.
Let’s cut to the chase and do it,
whilst we feel the urgency and the rush.
Ee, you’re a numbskull,
you’ve forgotten to bring the bread.
What good’s just ham and butter?
Have you got sawdust in your head?
I will blow kisses across the ocean.
Catch them if you can.
Open wide your eyes and see I love you,
and have, since time began.
He fed her boiled tripe butties
she swallowed them too, with ease,
until it dawned upon her,
that she’d really rather have cheese.
August 12, 2012
The forgotten Sub sits
sucking his thumb.
Passed over so often,
he has segs on his bum.
I was living my life through her music,
as I watched each of her lovers
come and go with a song.
Some, I hoped wouldn’t linger,
whilst others, I felt did belong.
But the music that came from her bedroom,
broke my heart in many a way,
as I knew that the time was nearing
when her room, in silence, would lay.
August 11, 2012
Subtlety wasn’t her forte.
Tact was beyond her too.
She just jumped straight in with both feet,
as they squirmed and watched her stew.