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