DAY TWENTY
THE PHOTOGRAPH
They stood still in time in nineteen nineteen
and they're still standing there
At Chorlton tram terminus in the picture
that came from the pub
The photograph now on my wall in monochrome
black and white
But that's all right they won't change
they'll always be there
Long after I've gone they'll still be
standing on that photo
In that same frame large as life looking into the
twenty first century through the glass
20042026
NaPoWriMo 2026
Please note that all my NapoWriMo entries this year will appear on my Straight Talking Street Talking Sweet bloggage at: sewina.blogspot.com
DAY TWELVE
TOP EURO
(FOR A PINT OF
THE BLACK STUFF)
Crazy as flying to a European capital for the day
and perhaps as mad as paying top Dollar
or in this case top Euro for a pint of the black stuff
silly as walking everywhere when there were buses
trains and trams to hop on and off of
(don't think I've ever said 'off of' before)
daft as standing on every other bridge over the Liffey
and only seeing one small boat float under
and it definitely wasn't the Guinness barge
another large Jamieson at a different pub in Temple Bar
a pint of Stout and a short crawl or should I say wobble
up the cobbles to the next hostelry for more of the same
insane stuff where we met Oscar Wilde sitting outside
brazen as brass or perhaps as bold as bronze
much like the regulars inside the rub-a-dub-dub
who all claimed to be related to him phew
12042026
FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH
Friday the thirteenth who would have thought it
not me of course but her and a million other
superstitious mothers will lose it all if they fall
and many more than you think most probably will
Bazillions of them crawling out of the proverbial woodwork
dicey as lice before their ship sinks without trace
like the Bismark and the Titanic before her
going down on the ocean bed to a watery grave
With their families still waiting for them back home
only who else could it happen to these days
when nobody loses and everyone's an after dinner winner
the last investigation that they want in all the world begins today
Therefore at the final hurdle everything will unfold
the things we have been told and not been told
the story of those poor men and women will be sold
that lost their lives on land or shipwrecked at sea
13032026
BATMAN AND CARRUTHERS
Upstairs downstairs or in yer ladies chamber
who can tell what spell will or won't unfold
New Year-ness less we forsake it mistake it
for something or other unpleasant or not
Will we even make it some of us won't
that's for sure the way the clock trickles
like the toxic tears of a clown tic tock down
for another season another reason
for all and sundry to live life to the full
Foolish as it may or may not seem
it's a dream for some and a necessity for others
What's your New Years resolution gonna be
the same as last year but you'll keep it this time
or will you start on February the second like me
So long as it's a Tuesday and the weekend is over
and well and truly behind you Carruthers
Remember what you said about Christmas
when I asked you what day it was on
You said I'm not all that bothered Batman
as long as it's not Friday the thirteenth
Who can tell what spell will or won't unfold
Upstairs downstairs or in yer ladies chamber
30122025
