A love in verse

All That Live

1997-09-22
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All that live are lamed in soul

So I’m no freak but one of many

Stumbling, half out of control

But with a better aid than any

A fifty-plus girl that’s more like thirty

Radiant, fresh, lovelier than all

Ready to get her sweet hands dirty

Raising me each time I fall –

For though for looks she’ll blow your mind

More than she’s beautiful she’s kind.

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Growing Old

You feel beleaguered when you’re old

For what’s to come? Fuck all, you’d say

The last few sunsets slip away…

Scottish Theatres

I was to play Claudius the king

A National star the errant Dane,

Film star to be, and no plain Jane...