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Slubberdegullion

It’s no joke, when you’re at work

with someone who loves work so much

they can stand and watch it all day,

or should that be, slouch on a broom,

or a roll of carpet would suffice

as a seat or a bed for potato couch,

a slattern by all accounts, a slowback,

a slacker, a slowpoke, a loafer,

a skrimshanker, a wastrel, a skiver.

If not skiving he’s chucking a sickey,

or slumped under the duvet snoozing,

lallygagging, kipping, sleeping in.

His forty winking and work-shy ways

spread like a blood infection

deflating my spizzerinktum

below the level of a zest-less lemon

and I slipped into the slow lane,

oversleeping, jigging, going missing,

bone idle, lackadaisical, too slothful

to concentrate on leaping sheep,

yawning through my sluggardly motions

in slow motion...

Preferring the languid pace of a tortoise

tottering behind a sauntering snail.

I’m a slatternly slugabed, a lacklustre

punch-line. Look me up in the dictionary,

slubberdegullion, boom, boom.

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Peter knaggs

Thu 16th Aug 2018 10:54

This is an old one, from my book Cowboy Hat. I love to read it at gigs.

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raypool

Wed 15th Aug 2018 11:17

A stand alone poem Peter. there's so much construction in here that it would probably stand up by itself. Excellent and enjoyable. Have you ever read this at open mike events? Should go well! I think scrimshanker was a term used by sarcastic teachers for pupils who were tardy.

Great use of words.

Ray

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Graham Sherwood

Wed 15th Aug 2018 10:11

You've got to get a like just for the title alone! Peter
Great Stuff.

<Deleted User> (18980)

Wed 15th Aug 2018 10:01

Am I alone in liking this?

<Deleted User> (18980)

Tue 14th Aug 2018 16:48

Some brilliant words in there...don't know if they're real or made up, but who cares?

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