Astrid Kirchherr?
On 28/11/2012 12:30, Patrick McManus wrote:
> Pete Best? Stu Sutcliffe?
>
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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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