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[b]Nephew's are just cooler than you
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I watch the child play
As myself
He has the same taste
Preferring the gully's hidden places
To the park's swings and cages

With stick in hand
He lifts the rock
Waiting to strike
At anything that might
Give him a shock

I watch him jump back
stand still a moment
either to admire
or laysentence
All I hear is the sound
of rocks echoing

He makes a pile of his conquests
hoping to impress me

I'm impressed
and perhaps a little jealous

(His pile being twice the size
mine ever was.)

I kneel down and look him
in the eye " You know, you have to eat what you kill."

And with a face already accustomed to defiance,

He says " I will, when I'm done."

And off he runs, laughing, knowing.

He had me fooled.

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SW-User

Don't suppose you've heard of Roger McGough?

Lostpoet · M

@SW-User yeah I've read him.

Let me die a youngman's death
not a clean and inbetween
the sheets holywater death
not a famous-last-words
peaceful out of breath death

When I'm 73
and in constant good tumour
may I be mown down at dawn
by a bright red sports car
on my way home
from an allnight party

Or when I'm 91
with silver hair
and sitting in a barber's chair
may rival gangsters
with hamfisted tommyguns burst in
and give me a short back and insides

Or when I'm 104
and banned from the Cavern
may my mistress
catching me in bed with her daughter
and fearing for her son
cut me up into little pieces
and throw away every piece but one

Let me die a youngman's death
not a free from sin tiptoe in
candle wax and waning death
not a curtains drawn by angels borne
'what a nice way to go' death

SW-User

@Lostpoet 🙂, your writing is good I appreciate it.

Lostpoet · M

@SW-User Thanks man. 🙂

SW-User

Omg I really love this so very much

Lostpoet · M

@SW-User TY Sexy.🙂

SW-User

@Lostpoet I think it's my favorite so far

SStarfish ·

Aww

Lostpoet · M

@SStarfish Ty you for reading
Zzlig.

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