Well done, that was brilliant. Did I sound like a Brit? That was a good one, good choice on topic and words👍Thank you. Thank you for sharing and for caring. Thank you for being such a good example to the rest of the elderly community with keeping your mind going even when maybe your body can’t keep up. I do think Midge should get some of the credit though since she’s the one you wake up for ( most likely) every morning. I know this because I have dogs and some days when I don’t feel like getting it together they give me that look or that wet nose or the radar ears and I’m reminded of how much somebody loves me. I have arguments with my girl McKinley about who loves who more. Again thanks.
Hi, that’s a great piece. It reminds me of something along the same lines by Roger McGough I think, called ‘Bits of me’ or something similar.
It starts:
When people ask me how I am,
I say ‘bits of me are fine.’
And they are ...and so on.
And he goes on to explain how it’s the ‘backroom boys with Latin names’ that you cannot see that bang on the ceiling inside etc etc.
Have a read if you can, your poem could go along with it.
Regards
Phil
Thanks Phil40 that's quite a compliment. Not that I knew much about Roger McGough at the time. However I've since read quite a lot about him. I couldn't find the poem that you mentioned, but I enjoyed a lot of others. He is of course of my era, just six years younger (his birthday is two days after mine) and he was born just a few miles away from where I live. I've just seen that 'Bits of Me' is the title of his book, for which I will now go looking.
I am not that well read myself but I remember that one because I sometimes do answer people who ask how are you today? ‘Bits of me are fine’ and no one has ever asked which bits.
Did he write the poem about parents too? Can’t remember the name of it but the first line is
‘They f@@k you up, your Mum and Dad,
They do not mean to but they do’
and so on.
It’s not awful as it probably looks it’s actually funny and very relevant to me and probably my kids too haha.
Shamefully I’ve never heard of this poet, I’ll have to google him. I love the phrase though and am definitely going to have to steal that for an answer to the “how are you today” that I get throughout the day (I work in a shop) Oh, bits of me are fine. I like that 😎
‘That be the verse’ maybe? I had a memory once. Can’t exactly recall when or what happened to it but I am pretty sure it was there.
And my hearing was too
I had no idea that Roger McGough was one of the group called 'The Scaffold' who I much admired back in 1968 and is so well known by everybody,...but me! Mind you I've no idea how I got into writing poetry or rhymes whatever you want to call them in the first place.
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