'I grip my Adam's whip,
my hazel wand, my straw-haired vagabond,
my Pirate of Penzance, my lilac love lance,
my ramrod, my wad, my schlong, my tube, my tonk' [etc - for two pages].
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Sunday 28 September 2008
Isn't it awfully nice to have a penis?
I greatly enjoyed Alan Gillis' Hawks and Doves, but I couldn't help noticing that the poem The Lad was based on a familiar, if amusing, idea. In the poem ,the lad describes how he leaves the pub and:
Anyone else remember this?:
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Anyone else remember this?:
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I heard Alan Gillis read that poem earlier this year. He read it brilliantly and the irony came through as loud and clear as the humour. I guess it is a piece that needs performance for it to work to best effect.
I imagine it would be fun in performance - what was the rest of the reading like?
I certainly didn't mean to suggest there was nothing to it apart from the similarity to Monty Python. Hope that wasn't how it came across!
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