Love Poem: Whimsicality
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Written by: Terry Ireland

Whimsicality

She had a face like a fish fryer's basket,
All stressed  and creased and lined 
His like  a bag of old spanners
Abused, misused, misaligned. 
She jumped his place in the bar queue
One  Boozy Saturday Night
Instead of taking the Hump 
He loved her at first sight.

Two aging hippies
Who’d never ever bricked it
And when they met each other 
Felt they’d really clicked it
They consummated their relationship 
In the yard outside  the bar
And once or twice more
On the back seat of his  car.

They came down to earth together
Laughing at life’s little joke 
Then he pulled out his baccy pouch 
And rolled them both a toke.
Two ageing hippies who
Quickly grabbed the chance
To waltz their way together
Through life’s oncertain dance

They became a couple
Saw each other more and more
And when they looked at each other 
It was only beauty that each saw,
With her face like a fish fryer’s basket 
All stressed and creased and lined, 
His like a bag of old spanners
Abused, misused, misaligned