18 Minutes and 33 Seconds

By mjpitts

Sun, 28 Nov 2010
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I’m sorry.
I was wrong.
Like when I bought

the Guinness Book of Records from1992,
75 pence from a charity shop,
in Cromer.

A perfect gift for your, big birthday.
I thought you’d see the beauty
in a book so obsolete.

But like holding your breath underwater for 18 minutes and 33 seconds will
gain you a title, for now;
not everything lasts.

Certificate U
Poem
Milk of Magnesia
Autobiography

Comments

Submitted by peterelbee on
Books like that date very quickly, though I am not sure if I would be able to hold my breath under water for 18 minutes and 33 seconds. You'd have to have mighty powerful lungs