SLOWLY SAM

 

Sam Peckinpah was a film director

Of films with action blood and gore

In celebration of his novel notion

He was duly buried in slow motion

WHAT?

 

What darkness

Leads a tortured soul

To break the bonds

Which hold us

Voluntarily

 

What illusion

So influences

A mind once so rational

To plot its own

Destruction

 

What delusion

That to escape sorrow

Convinces totally

You reach euphoria

By self-release

 

What question

Asked of a soul

Is so composed

That the answer be

Suicide

ABSENTEE (ACROSTICS)

 

Sarah was absent last week because she had an

Illness fever, sore throat, headache and upset stomach.

Catherine, her sister was also sick, fever and sore throat,

Kenny, her brother had a low-grade fever and ached all over.

Nor was I the best either, 

Over come with a sore throat and fever.

There must be something going around,

Even her father got hot last night.

JOYS OF THE OPEN ROAD

 

I used to love to drive but not anymore

I used to look forward to it

Any excuse but not these days

Driving is so joyless

Road rage abounds

Aggressive gestures are commonplace

Hand signals not found in the Highway Code

Two fingered gesticulations

Or one fingered like the Americans do

Called flipping the bird I believe

Or the one that looks like they’re shaking coffee beans

Then there’s tail gating or undertaking

A complete lack of lane discipline

You get blinded by flashing lights

Or deafened by sounding horns

Or you’re subjected to a tirade of verbal abuse

Language to make a fish wife blush

And the men are just as bad

CREATURES OF GREEK MYTHOLOGY – THE NEMEAN LION

There was a dreadful union between the giant immortal Typhon

And the black fearful eyed Echidne, Half serpent, half woman

The terrifying result of this unnatural union was a huge Lion

No ordinary Lion but a supernatural monster called the Nemean

Its skin was impenetrable to the arrows or spear of Heracles

Who had been sent to kill it so he then adopted other strategies

Finally strangling it with his bare hands and then skinning it

Ever after wearing the hide as a cloak and its jaws as a helmet 

WHATS IN A NAME (9)

 

Does anyone know is Alan Green?

Does anyone know is Robbie Keane?

Does anyone think did Dan Dare?

Has anyone else seen Dani Behr?

ARE YOU WEARING SPACE PANTS?

 

Are you wearing space pants?

Well, your virtue may be imperilled

Because wearing those pants

Your arse is out of this world