Comic Verse

One of my lockdown projects was to produce an anthology of comic verse. It is published by Green Arrow Press. Here is a sample:

CARE IN THE COMMUNITY

(With apologies to Samuel Beckett)

Two beggars, tramps, were sitting on a mound

Drinking, chatting, passing the time of day

Beneath a tree where they’d been told to wait.

Bleep-bleep, bleep-bleep, rang out from deep inside

The folds of rags that hung about the frame

Of one. ‘Sounds like your mobile, Didi’ said his mate.

‘What shall I do, Gogo?’ the startled man replied.

‘Answer it, fool, it’s someone wants to talk to you.’

Bleep-bleep it went while Didi rummaged down

And brought the gasping instrument forth to fresher air.

‘Hello,’ he said. Bleep-bleep, it went. ‘Press green.’

He did what Gogo said, the bleeping stopped

A voice replied. ‘Yes sir,’ answered Didi, ‘Thank you

Very much.’ The line went dead. ‘Finished? Then press red,’

His street-wise friend advised. ‘Well, come on, out

With it. Aren’t you going to tell me who that was?’

‘It was that Godot, says he’ll not be coming after all

Today, but he’ll make it tomorrow for sure.’

‘That’s social workers for you,’ grumbled Gogo.

“Well, best not make a drama out of it.”

Didi sighed, stood up. “You’re right,” he said

“Come on, then Gogo, let’s be getting on our way.”

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