Love's Game Vi
...Wives win by their cook
Husbands win by their chequebook...
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Categories:
chequebook, appreciation, best friend, caregiving,
Form: Couplet
A Hackneyed Love
...A hackneyed love,
now I know,
my heart's a treasure,
I say no more.
your eyes on the chequebook
like ice on a cake,
none you give but loads you take,
Dear you made it look grotesque.
act ...
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Categories:
chequebook, heartbroken,
Form: Rhyme
Where I Was In the Seventies
...I stood before the mirror, one last check,
a quick inspection, then head off to town,
silver kipper tie around the neck,
shirt of green, sports jacket of light brown.
Platform shoes on, I boogie ...
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Categories:
chequebook, first love,
Form: Couplet
The Setting of the Sun: Part Three
...Behold a land of monarchic decadence as celebrity status
of family values eroded in a smorgasbord
of half truths and bare-faced lies;
what life-model this,
one of toe-sucking chequebook journalis...
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Categories:
chequebook, history, social, time, ,
Form: Narrative