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Sick As A Parrot

Angela M Laws

Monday, June 25th, 2007

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 There’s a poet in you.
There’s a poet in me.
There’s a poet in the parrot
of the pirate at sea:
‘pieces of eight! pieces of eight!’
He echoes the sounds with impish glee.

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 There’s a poet in the fan
at the football match,
as he chants his opinions
full of insults rash.
No one escapes on the emerald green,
not even the hapless referee.

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 As he mocks
his vision,
his birth,
his all:
his Match Day persona
is having a ball.

© Angela M Laws 25th June 07

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/sick-as-a-parrot/