Place-Names of China
Written by Alan Bennett
Bolding Vedas! Shanks New Nisa!
Trusty Lichfield swirls it down
To filter beds on Ruislip Marshes
From my lav in Kentish Town
The Burlington! The Rocheter!
Oh those names of childhood loos -
Nursie rattling at the door knob:
'Have you done your Number Twos?'
Lady typist - office party -
Golly! All that gassy beer!
Tripping home down Hendon Parkway
To her improved Windemere.
Here I sit, alone at sixty,
Bald and fat and full of sin,
Cold the seat and loud the cistern
As I read the Harpic tin.
Friday the 13th
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The realization that only 43 days are left in the Biden-Harris
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This is my sort of poem. I feel overcome... and slightly flushed.
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Yes, I also feel very relieved to have read some Alan Bennett this morning. Maybe he'd have made a better poet laureate than Betjeman.
edoplii 32Gadjo: funny you should mention Betjeman because I immediately thoughT of him when I read it.
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