Total Pageviews

Saturday, 8 August 2020

THE SMILE POEMS #5 - BATH WATER

Available for freelance writing commissions on a variety of subjects including family history, nostalgic Belfast and its famous people, shops, shoppers & shopping (40 years in retailing), the golden age of Hollywood (including westerns) and humorous pieces on life's weird and wonderful. Op-eds, columns, non-fiction book reviews too. 

joecushnan@aol.com & @JoeCushnan

I have a portfolio of features, reviews, poetry and short fiction published in all sorts of places - Belfast Telegraph, Tribune, Ireland's Own, Dalhousie Review, Fairlight Books, Reader's Digest, Reality, Lapwing Poetry, Ink, Sweat & Tears, Spillwords, Dear Reader, Amethyst Review, Black Bough, to name a selection.  Oh, and the odd BBC radio contribution. I wrote a book on retailing, on dealing with job losses and a biography of film star Stephen Boyd.

This is a series of (hopefully) funny poems from hundreds I've written over the years (inspired by the likes of Spike Milligan and Roger McGough) to provoke a smile in these odd times.


BATH WATER

Well, you see,
It was like this,
It was a busy time,
Not enough hours
In the day,
Only two hands,
Mind all over the place.....
You see,
I threw out the bath water
And then couldn't find the baby.....
You don't think,
Cough, splutter,
Perhaps,
Maybe...........




Text © Joe Cushnan 2020

No comments:

Post a Comment