A moral tale Arthur. The second line doesn't make a lot of sense.I know what
you mean but begs the question: how can you buy a bottle found on the shore?
"Potent" and "solemn" echo music hall monologues... was this intended?
bw
James
>From: Arthur <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: New sub: Jetsam
>Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 10:18:41 -0000
>
> Jetsam
>
>With money stolen from the school they planned
>and bought a bottle found along the shore,
>no label, but grey-heads and common lore
>thought it a potent whisky from Japan.
>They knew no better but the lure was there
>of joys denied them by the solemn church,
>so in the deepest bush they bent their search
>for flame-lipped kisses from that liquid fire.
>
>The drink was paraquat, the promised kiss
>was pain and death. One rots in shallow scoop,
>the other views forever with blind eyes.
>The first will crown the village pile with his
>stripped skull and ooze, with rain, down seaward slope,
>the other leans to learn the sea's long sighs.
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