The Duff Emporium (By A.Mcphee Pow Number 91127) Poem by Andrew Wright

The Duff Emporium (By A.Mcphee Pow Number 91127)



Come all Kreigsgefangene of Stalag XB
To view the grand duffs made by Allan McPhee
With a lump of this good duff and a cup of good tea,
You're better a Gefangener than going to sea.

When the poor gefangener's dreams are of heaven,
They are inspired by the duffs made by 91127.
Like the "Children of Israel's" bread without leaven,
They rise like the trout from the depths of the Severn.

When "Sauerkraut" and fish are things of the past,
Please still have a thought for a master of craft,
For old "Clippy" McPhee now removed from the sand,
But still knocking up duffs in the pit of the damned.

Friday, July 21, 2017
Topic(s) of this poem: food,war memories
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
Andrew Wright was a Prisoner of War, captured at Dunkirk. This poem is taken from a notebook he kept while in the POW camps. It is difficult to believe that the writers of all of these poems were men who had in the main left school at the age of 14. Where he attributes the poem to an individual I have included that attribution. Andrew Wright died in 1987. These poems were uploaded by his son.
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