Saturday, May 28, 2016

for PATTAYA TRADER 263 (A)

DRY HUMOUR DUO
We two were like
'Withnail and I'
who weren't Lake Poets
(too young and dry ?).
You no aristocrat,
more the footpad,
me a so-fed-up
back-to-London lad.

MENTALIST-OR-MATRERIALIST ?
Mind over matter
or matter over mind?
Would seem the many
are in the latter's bind !

INDIVIDUALITY VERSE
Highly individual ?
Feeling on your own ?
What of the very people
who act like clones ?
The same-as folk
can also feel alone.

CAN-CAN
In Paris, in Pigalle,
you said can't, I said can.
You went Parisienne
and I went Parisian.
The rude-as-roses dancers
danced for the man,
and for the ladies present
did not give a damn !

BEARERS-AS-TO-BEAUTY
She walked regally 'long Regent Street
but it was not until King's Road
a little girl called her "Princess"
though she carried her own load.

Yes she carried her own bags
and carried her own weight
though men have made the offer
due to her beauty and her gait.

CHAIN-GANG GIRLS ?
She liberated her leg
from its ball and chain
and slept with young men
again and yet again,
but she'd many friends
gave the lady a bad name.
Her leg, with shapely twin,
won't walk that way again.

DUALITIES ?
Man and woman,
night and day,
good and bad,
swear or pray,
love and hate
or middle way,
black and white
but also grey.

POETS, PROPHETS, PUZZLERS ?
Not so much a messenger,
perhaps more a challenger ?
Maybe a mystic warrior ?
A questing questioner ?

BRIAN A BELLOWING MINOTAUR ?
A postcard from Patten
had come my way.
He was over the sea
on a very hot holiday.
He liked Greek-girls
and I've got to say:
'The performance poet
was performing away' !?

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