The work email poet-pirate strikes again…

Context needed. Someone in Religion sent around a blank-verse invitation to come pub crawling for his leaving do, mentioning bars called Odder and Long Legs. (Jabez Clegg is another bar along Oxford Road.) I’m still on holiday leave on the date in question, so:

Pub Crawl RSVP

With deep regrets, etcetera,
To turn down such a lyric lure
I find myself away that day
Upon a quest obscure;

For secretary’s siren song
Informs me I have leave to burn
And must essay some holiday
Or lose it, in my turn.

So raise a glass for absent Herms
And happy quaffing, one and all:
Be odd, be clegg, be long of leg –
The better pubs to crawl.

(Oh, and I’m well aware the last line can be interpreted in more than one way. “To crawl the better [of the] pubs” or “The better to crawl pubs”.)

That takes me to 26 poems, half my target for this year (52). I’m quite happy with that, especially because I’ve also started digi-painting again in the meantime, which I hadn’t expected to do.

I may even bubble up with some more poetry before the year’s out, if all my creative juice isn’t spent on paintings and writing the Twine Wars opening.

edit: A few people have emailed me back with things like “Brilliant!”, “You really are very good at writing poetry. Have you written a lot? Have you published anything? I’m properly impressed…”, “I loved your poem back to [colleague] – good work!” and “Bravo!” Fun to get compliments and hopefully give other people a chuckle out of their afternoons. *danceydancey*

edit2: reply from sender:
“Its bad form to send a reply so witty
It make the author of the invite feel rather shitty”
Awwwwww… haha. (Don’t worry – he didn’t mind really.)