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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Bill Wootton
Sent: 28 November 2012 12:07
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Subject: Ode to a Beatles Mug - George resurrected
Bowing to the need to represent each of the Fab Four, this mug has rejigged,
slightly.
Ode to a Beatles Mug
O tatty sixties busted cup, you'll do,
even if hot chocolate you bear no more.
Circumscribed by boys with slim ties and suits,
your faded plastic still holds the Fab Four.
A florin-sized slit chunk of your wide white
lip rim is gone, above gooby Ringo,
whose jewel-heavy hands are together laid.
Blue-suited George leans on Lennon below.
Paul's polite grey crewneck buries his tie.
You still wear your understamp, in Melbourne made.
Once a showbag trinket, a throwaway,
now collectable, forty eight years on.
Each year passing, looks more like Yesterday.
We loved The Beatles, especially John,
before he Imagined so naively.
In a pre-decimal Australia,
other mega-pop stars with uncoiffed hair
appeared on all sorts of paraphernalia.
But it's these mop tops we embraced so keenly
and this mug has survived its wear and tear.
Bill Wootton
28 November 12=
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