great stuff
only query
the bowl
then it reappears politely
what reappears? the bottom of the basin or the moon?
T)O(
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Cooper" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2002 12:07 AM
Subject: What Made The Moon Whisper
> for C & C:
> N.B. The poem (despite what may get changed by the width of your screen)
is
> in long lined quatrains! The phrase in *Italics* is denoted between
asterix,
> i.e. *the phrase...*
>
>
> What Made The Moon Whisper
>
>
> This is the night for gazing at where the full moon is about to rise
beyond
> Spittal Tongues
> and, because the 3.30 at Haydock was just as it should be, the pints are
all
> on Joe Coral;
> the night for students, although well pissed, with loud accents and Casio
> watches, to be polite,
> for singing old Supreme songs in the gents while agreeing the barmaid
looks
> like Debbie Harry,
>
> and this is when Chris will tell the stories again of how he appeared in a
> film with Ali McGraw,
> then how they shared vegi-burgers and diet-coke for lunch and talked of
The
> Good Soldier Svejk
> while 6th Formers from the coast, with Lurex tights, large earrings and 10
> Bensons, turn away,
> shimmy handbags between their shoes and gaze at the tall guys in dark
suits
> stood near them.
>
> This is the night for wailing along to Howlin Wolf, another last 80/-,
> feeling good and tall,
> for dancing with nurses half-way across Percy St., for giggling eating
> pizzas, for hopscotch,
> for whistling at policewomen, for acknowledging that Arsenal have a good
> team, for lying,
> then strolling home light-footed, where you’ll smile while I tell of most
> things that were funny,
>
> and later, after watching Bilko while eating toast, and laughing so much
> there’s no need for sex,
> the air is still warm when the huge moon hides its face at 3 o’clock and I
> stagger to the bowl
> then it reappears politely when I get up off my knees and whispers when I
> sway back to bed,
> *It’s all right, I understand, it’s OK.* And as I pull up the duvet I
> believe in that kindness and sleep.
>
>
>
> Bob Cooper
>
>
> (Footnotes, perhaps for US and Australian readers...)
> Haydock is a Racecourse
> Joe Coral's is a chain of Betting Shops
> Bensons are cigarettes (Bensons & Hedges)
> 80/- (or "eighty shilling" is the name of a draught beer, which in
Scotland
> can also be called "80 bob" or, I believe, "heavy.")
>
>
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