' ' ' ' ' More Telling Tankas Poem by Dónall Dempsey

ON BEING A SUCCESS IN FAILURE.

“ZHIVAGO’S! WHERE LOVE
STORIES – BEGIN! ” I grin...ask
my hundredth girl.

“**** off four eyes! ”

I...give...up!


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PUNCTUATION WARS

He gazes at her
with a big question mark? She...
gazes back with a full...stop!

But he doesn’t get it. So...
tells him NO! in capitals.


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KEEPING IN TOUCH

First time in London.
Girl punk in Camden Market
rummaging for shoes.

Gets bored & yanks on long chain
attached to boy punk’s tongue. OUCH!

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THE NURSERY RHYME & NOTHING BUT THE NURSERY RHYME

It’s like a secret
never to be told...seven
magpies in a tree
almost simultaneously
the whole bloody nursery rhyme.