Wednesday, 2 October 2019

Next theme:UNWANTED, OCT 3rd; DINNER CONVERSATION, Oct 10; PUSH BAR TO OPEN, Oct 17 - note: contributors are welcome to submit theme suggestions to creativecommunities@talktalk.net - chosen ones will be fully credited - Jenn

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  1. Poem that inspired the theme:

    UNWANTED


    The Poster with my picture

    Is hanging on the bulletin board in the Post Office.


    I Stand by it hoping to be recognised

    Posing first full face then profile


    But everyone passes by and I have to admit

    The photograph was taken some years ago.


    I was unwanted then and I'm unwanted now

    Ah guess I'll go up echo mountain and crah.


    I wish someone would find my fingerprints somewhere

    Maybe on a corpse and say, You're it.


    Description: Male, or reasonably so

    White, but not lily-white and usually deep-red


    Thirty-fivish and looks it lately

    Five-feet-nine and one-hundred-thirty pounds: no physique


    Black hair going gray, hairline receding fast

    What used to be curly, now fuzzy


    Brown eyes starey under beetling brow

    Mole on chin, probably will become a wen


    It is perfectly obvious that he was not popular at school

    No good at baseball, and wet his bed.


    His aliases tel his history: Dumbbell, Good-for nothing,

    Jewboy, Fieldinsky, Skinny, Fierce Face, Greaseball, Sissy.


    Warning: This man is not dangerous, answers to any name

    Responds to love, don't call him or he will come.


    Edward Field

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