'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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'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].
2 comments:
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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