Miscellaneous
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Cheerful Things
published: 5 /
11 /
2010
In his regular 'Evidently Spencertown' poetry column Spencer Robertshaw is back after a month's absence with the only partially ironically titled 'Cheerful Things'
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The strings that hold Superman up as he flies
The sound a teddy bear makes when it cries
A 60 stone baby surrounded by pies
A murderous look in a butcher's eyes
The squeak of wheels from one who once walked
The fished out body of a grass that talked
The fly blown corpse of a deer once stalked
The winning ticket being burnt in a flame
An Alzheimer’s specialist forgetting his name
The life we lead described as a game
An Honest John who has no shame
Heads of charity eating out every night
Countless pictures of Africa’s plight
A starving child dying of fright
An obese teenager on Angel Delight
A nuclear family dying from radiation
Gordon Brown addressing the nation
Prices dance at the petrol station
Quantitative easing a short lived libation
When it wears off there’s no variation
Junkies shooting the poppies' creation, in public toilets with no sanitation
The dealers that tore up their great expectations
Darwin's model, the start of the race now becoming more commonplace
A child without a dream
A beck without a stream
The cat that didn’t get the cream
Mankind’s soul drowns swimming upstream
A monkey with a machine gun
A vampire in the sun
The queen chewing gum
The pope showing his bum
An optimist looking glum
DIY colonic irrigation
Underwear that causes irritation
An alcoholic given libation
The BNP bestowed a citation
Faded medals in a pawn shop
A bike without pedals at a bus stop
A one legged man who can't hop
A rapist in the dock saying "it’s a fair cop"
Quality control on weapons of mass destruction - the sheer delight as they step up production
Thoughts of winning war on a politician's seduction
A few million dead - hey, it’s only a reduction
The everyday smile that can take you another mile
The journey we make and forgiveness for mistakes
The strength to stand up and to know what is wrong
Why ruin a life that we don’t have for long ?
The strength too stand up and to know what is wrong
Why ruin a life that we don’t have for long?