Keep reading
By Mentalelf
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Keep reading..
Don’t be the fool.
I saw a man who had no teeth.
Sneaking round the library,
looked like thief.
One eye cast to the floor
The other, glass, saw no more.
And as his wig did slip
I saw no evidence
Of ear nor tip…. and
He turned a page with prosthetic hand
His thumb was attached with a plastic band
Then to my horror I saw a hole
Close, very close to where we would have a nose.
I wandered how the gentleman smelled…..
Then I caught his frisky odour
Paco Raban, an expensive musk?
More like corpse water cooling at dusk.
As his wooden leg clicked and clacked
And just as I thought he’s probably cracked.
He cackled at me with a heart felt glee
And with that one shining eye he fixed upon me
And as I tried to see why so fixed.
After all……….
A wise man can learn from a fool,
But a fool cannot learn from a wise man
Son he said with his toothless grin
I know you think I’m not worth a fuck
But I’ll tell you now from my bent body all a’crook
Your never alone when you have a book!
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Was the man a kind of
Was the man a kind of compilation, a jumbled figment of characters from books? His words made me think he was touting reading so....I’m not sure if I'm right; he was a bunch of missing parts walking and you've created a vivid, disconcerting image to be sure.
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