Joeuf Platini;
Graf Bruhl,
Stella McCartney,
Paris, Too!
Minehead, or Skegness,
she never could quite remember which.
A black and white, Box Brownie picture.
A stranger smirking, she is beautiful.
They sit on a low sea wall.
A passer-by took the image.
The top of my tussled head,
the lens was too high -
no face in the frame.
She claimed there were other lost me-pics,
better childhood pictures;
I never found them.
I have this one thing
A monochrome box Brownie snap.
Some say foh-tuh-graf.
I know it as, ‘invisible me’
in Minehead
or maybe Skegness.
Faster than you can say Professor Heinrich Graf Von Glockenspiel
A friendship is gone
That’s what I called that joint experiment of ours
A friendship
I don’t know what you called it
I never had the honor of being called your friend
I didn't make it past colleague
Epilogue
I was that man who was kind
You were that woman who was indifferent
I went to the zoo to feed a giraffe
Brought some chocolates to the staff
Chatted and had a good laugh
Told them my dream was to meet Steffi Graf
See if I could obtain her autograph
And beg her for a photograph
So I’d print a humongous lithograph
‘Top tennis pro’ as epigraph
AP: Honorable Mention 2026. Honorable Mention 2021
This ship in His Majesty’s fleet is very good.
I am with the crew of the HMS Hood.
I am so proud to serve on this pride of the fleet.
She is a first-class battlewagon complete.
Since the war began, things have been quite frantic.
The Germans have wreaked havoc in the North Atlantic.
Just see what has happened down South America way.
They caused some trouble with their ship, the Graf Spee.
However, they now have a huge maritime bulwark.
This is a formidable battleship they have named the Bismarck.
I know there will be some inevitable confrontations.
When they occur, we will go to our battle stations.
We are the sailors of the proud British Navy.
The Hood is our best and the most mighty.
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