Happy-Hour Confab
happy-hour confab
uglied by age and profanity
wasted by infirmities
laughing loud at half-heard
‘booze talk’ wisecracks
as if they found them funny
a pride of spent grey ‘stallions’
sits braying of days
when they roared like the lions
they wanted to be
they were hunters of maidens –
maidens enjoyed
maidens discarded –
love warriors with rubbers
(ribbed for extra pleasure) –
to show they cared –
untouched in wallet ticket-pockets
lads they were
lads at drink
lads at play
lads at lassies
monkey business
their salt-cream fountains
sustaining the species…
remember?
remember?
what they don’t remember
they make out they do
harking back to a dream-time
before sappy love-wands dried
and hearts slowly calcified
hopeful blue pills
lie fallow in
wallet pockets now
remember ?
remember?
a former vicar’s holding forth
emboldened
I dive into the banter.
monkey business or sabotaged animated playmobil’s business* it will never make any sense, but it will always provoke sensation and if one remembers when, laughter and teardrops.
(weird theory of mine #3332739.)
Thanks, IYP, I’ve substantially edited and rewritten it – it stays the same in intent but is better now 🙂
yes you edited it a lot, not sure about banter. and I liked remember when
and rubbers, hmm
I don’t know it seems you edited it too much? why do I have the feeling it is now less intellectual?
cos I ain’t an intellectual ha ha 🙂
I only changed to ‘banter’ at the moment of posting – and the ‘whens’ were a late erasure – since I’ll have the thing hanging around a while I wil get back to it when it’s not ‘alive’ in my mind. Thanks for your comments – they are taken on board 🙂
You paint a brilliant, but grim picture of ancient beer soaked pot-bellied would-be machos whom can be found in many a local reliving or decorating their crummy exploits. Perhaps I’m being a little tough on these old “soldiers,” but it seems to me the most successful womanisers never boast about it.
It’s the quiet ones you have to watch. Hmm -you’ve just prompted a few thoughts that might turn into summat – if I write it I’ll deffo give you a tagline 🙂
Yes this sparked an idea for me also. I might even put electric pen to electric paper later.
Interested in what you come up with though.