Best Electrics Poems

...NOT For contest, wrote this on the beach today and realised I'd wrote over the 20 line max, thought I'd post it anyway. 


What follows reads like a tall fishy tale
How I nearly died i......

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...Boy those wheeler dealers sure work hard
just look at Ed slaving away sorting things.
First he sorts out the electrics and switches
then he turns his attention to the mechanics.

Strips out the ......

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...not in the heart again
for chrissakes it's like Swiss cheese
decoffinated please I'm a yet ambulatory zombie
off his medication as usual
alternatives to logic 101 with Prof. Spike
far too much w......

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...Oh how well I do remember
Dear Miss McConnell’s typing class.
Fumbling fingers seeking home keys,
And so afraid I wouldn’t pass.

The quick brown fox jumps over the…..
I was assigned that exerc......

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...Tom said to his kitten: Don't hunt! It's hard work!
Leave hunting to others and don't be a burk
Watch me and heed me and later admire
We'll slink to the future - a far distant fire

There sat so......

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...Grade one, oh, how I had so much fun!
Grade two; I painted pictures with colours red white and blue
Grade three, the year I fixed a rope swing to a great oak tree
Grade four, 6 stitches for bangin......

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...
Passed, words confirmed, where do I turn 
Wheels of confusion astride my time
Now knowing my tomorrow's being
As I await life's minutes in reflective remind

Awakening the next morning......

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...No longer at work
 now in retirement
 having worked since school
 many a task I was sent

 Began apprenticeship with electrics
 blew a fuse I'm colour blind
 then work in sweetie store
 before redund......

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...Steward covered me in coffee, the loos were blocked,
no one can enter, sat with legs crossed.
Plane landed with a bump, not so good.
Was feeling sort of queasy cos of no food.
Electrics were down in ......

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...I am calm and my feet are heavy.
Pictures of beaches and palm trees fill 
me with blue stasis. I can not see
your frowning face in the curtain slit.

I imagine a steady beat : in
and out, top a......

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...This plane clad in black that I wanted to see
Throughout this year it has eluded me
My one chance to go and see it take flight
Was thwarted by another venture in sight

A thing of beauty from an......

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...By the grave I saw blacken snow flakes
Lightning flashed as I witness
Drawn down from blacken purple skies
Burst of brilliants, winter blast snow blind
Upon a midnight electrics static......

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...My first was beside the outside loo,
'cos my wife said not indoors thank you.
I made her a table from an old headboard,
She was pleased, I knew I had scored.
My second was in a closet, 20 floors ......

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...holds the band 
together, listens
to their ****
(plays the peacemaker), 
hauls the most gear all
over the ****ing
place, been taking
her/his rage out on the
skins & cymbals 
since her/his early teens......

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...My house was smashed, broken and torn, 
All walls were holes full of light,
So I moved into town to another small place,
Where the walls could seal airtight.

Then boxing day came in the summer ......

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