Good work, Bob - it sounds to me like part of a longer narrative/story.
though it would be separate, not run on.
bw
SallyE
on 5/8/03 6:29 pm, Bob Cooper at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> OK this isn't one that's just been written. But I've just had a shower and
> remembered I'd got it somewhere between the lather and the rinse. It's an
> occasional piece, written a week after the guy died, but it's not really had
> an airing since... and I only remembered it because of grasshopper's bee
> poem! I guess, as with all occsional pieces, they can sometimes feel like
> yesterday's bread. But, whaddya think...
> Oh, and there's a four-letter-word near the end! So, if you need to be, be
> warned...
> For C&C:
>
> Huge Ted’s Last Morning
>
> Say it anyway you want, he was abundantly private
> even as a kid in the tobacconists in Mexborough
> or re-walking through leaves above Mytholmroyd.
> Whatever else he did he’s still the night-watchman,
> the bee-keeper, the rose-gardener they’d known; a farmer
> who’s now thin fingers you can hardly believe
> yanked out a dead lamb, who’s ears still seem to hear
> footballers in the Pennine rain, their violent words.
> And the last salmon he caught’s still in the fridge,
> its oil and pink weight collapsing in on itself
> until all that remains is the language he gave us,
> the books we’ll re-open, and the deep-vowelled
> fuck, said with the nakedness of an old man
> lifted from the bath for the last time.
>
> Bob Cooper
>
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