Best Chippy Poems

Fred walked home from the chippy,
took a fall on ice so slippy
cod slapped on his head
the kids didn't get fed ~
famished strays gathered in pity....

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Once more without sleep
all dreams exhausted
Neurotransmitters on high alert
rekindling furious flames
that lap hungrily through mid-back to feet
Like a chippy chiseling wood on the lathe
I splinter...

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TWEETED LOVE NOTE:
Sweet
Tweet

COMEDIC SPOUSE:
Funny
Honey

UNRULY PROTESTS:
Rabble
Babble

SMART-ALEC FLOOZY:
Lippy
Chippy

HEMATOLOGY:
Bloody
Study

WATERFALL:
Mountain
Fountain

2/26/13...

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SING IT TO “Danny Boy”

Verse

Oh what a joke
This beer is full of water
Tastes not like beer
But something very strange
So landlord dear do tell us what...

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Talk is Cheep


They flit about the yard all day
with chippy-chirpy words to say

plucking through the grass and weeds
they seek the sustenance of seeds

scattered on the...

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A barrel of oink is a snout snaffling. Order of pig sect of oink. In a pink summersaulting cartwheeling ham chunk. Wee wee weeeee. Rolling....

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Pirate Joe was drinking rum from a keg
Fell overboard and a shark had his leg
They hauled him back in
And stopped the bleedin
And chippy fitted him...

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Just sat here pondering on yesteryear, of times long gone yet still so clear,
We thought eating out was such a delight,outside the chippy on Saturday...

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From a ship’s logbook 

Sat on deck another long day I smelled of chippy fat 
and the sweat of honest labour  

The stove in...

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A road draws through 
Straggly lines of black ragged trees 
In a landscape under bleak eastern light
Past The Village Chippy
Colliers Row and the Working Men’s...

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FOUR   LOVE AFFAIRS

The French health food shop
Near Vasilyastrovskaya metro,
With a tiny patio garden bench   -
Fell in love there with the language...

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Being a non meat eater
I'll never eat a spam fritter again,
So why is the special offer on the counter so inviting?
Am I back at school...

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The windows pane upon my face, 
The door unlocks, I fall from grace. 
My friend he screams, a crunch of steel, 
Stabs of pain, then...

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I will very very probably do it again
Anyone who knows me and has a brain
Can see that Biden's old and lame
Now's the time to reignite...

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Sit around and do nothing all day
Alternatively watch the rugby played
Take the wife shopping and pay
Up to the chippy no cooking today
Ring the lads for...

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