[New-Poetry] Life's a (real) bitch

[David Bircumshaw]

> Well, that was part of the idea -- why have access to a Brummie dog 
> and bark yourself?
Hoi!! (laughing)

I wasn't trying to answer David's question, because I knew the answer.  
Without googling.  It was only because the review in question had been 
mentioned on  PoetryEtc recently and I'd read it. My one liner was just 
a joke.

I've expanded it into a (unmetrical) poem:

> /                          At/ /Ashbery Downs/
>
>  
>
> Getting old is the real bitch, but it's time to take it for a walk.
> The tricks, the confidence, go, though half of a fiction remains,
>
> along with our strange weather, whistling by a sky-blue pillar-box.
> There are feet, they are sore, this side of your baked Alaska.
>



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David Bircumshaw
Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk

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