ON BEING A SUCCESS IN FAILURE. <br /> <br />“ZHIVAGO’S! WHERE LOVE <br />STORIES – BEGIN! ” I grin...ask <br />my hundredth girl. <br /> <br />“**** off four eyes! ” <br /> <br />I...give...up! <br /> <br /> <br />******* <br /> <br />PUNCTUATION WARS <br /> <br />He gazes at her <br />with a big question mark? She... <br />gazes back with a full...stop! <br /> <br />But he doesn’t get it. So... <br />tells him NO! in capitals. <br /> <br /> <br />******* <br /> <br />KEEPING IN TOUCH <br /> <br />First time in London. <br />Girl punk in Camden Market <br />rummaging for shoes. <br /> <br />Gets bored & yanks on long chain <br />attached to boy punk’s tongue. OUCH! <br /> <br />******* <br /> <br />THE NURSERY RHYME & NOTHING BUT THE NURSERY RHYME <br /> <br />It’s like a secret <br />never to be told...seven <br />magpies in a tree <br />almost simultaneously <br />the whole bloody nursery rhyme.<br /><br />Dónall Dempsey<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/more-telling-tankas/
