Checked shortly before writing commenced,
it was found that the paper was too cold
for a safe writing of poetry.
‘Perhaps the writing
can be rescheduled for a later date?’
suggested the poet.
‘Maybe.’ answered the reader.
‘and maybe not.’
.
The crowd, expecting a good poem,
turned back at the news,
and went to the pub instead,
one of the throng said,
‘I was looking forward to the mismatch
of Oranges at half-rhyme.’
Most of the rest,
when put on the penalty-spot,
wrote it off as a ‘bad-lot’.
Graeme Sandford 