It's refreshing to know that there's a capable poet on this planet who
doesnt know Ted's work - not that that's meant to be uncomplementary to
Ted, but we do get into cultural droves rather, dont we!
bw
SallyE
on 21/6/04 9:15 am, Frank at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Enjoyed this very much Bob. Don't know the mans work, though I know I
> should, but the piece paints an excellent picture.
>
>
> Cheers and thanks,
>
>
> Frank
>
>
> 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
> whose now thin fingers you can hardly believe
> yanked out a dead lamb, whose 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.
>
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