Sonnet Number One

Some roll their eyes, or damn you with faint praise
Or disrespect your status as Gold Wing-er:
"His bike, I'll grant, is flash in certain ways;
It's not un-bling, but Nigel's Z is bling-er".

And some look down upon your workday bike:
"He really is a quite eccentric man
(Although, in fairness, he's a chap I like)
If he prefers a Blackbird to a Pan".

And some drop hints: "Now, keep this confidential-
I wonder if he had a brain disease?
I just can't see why someone so prudential
Would spend his time rebuilding two-stroke threes".

Console yourself, if talk like this should vex:
They're jealous, 'cos you've got a CBX.




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<8P Wizard
Suzuki GS550 "I like that. Nicely shite" - TOG
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You know that day job ...

hang on to it

 

You know, a lot of people wot wrote pomes were, during their
lifetime, considered to be crap, and then, after they passed on,
were reassessed by posterity and considered really rather good.

Of course, a lot of people wot wrote pomes were, during their
lifetime, considered to be crap, and then, after they passed on,
were reassessed by posterity, which concluded that their
contemporaries were right and they really were crap.

I'm not planning to give up the day job, because
a) I don't know what a garret is, and
b) Whatever it is, I don't fancy starving in one.


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I'd like to read one of your sonnets.

 

OK, saved for ... posterity

 

Mine ?

You must be kidding

They have more than one line

 

Excellent, I'm sure that's a very good one.

Saved for posterity

 

Students ... always plagiarising

 

Not quite yet, soon though. In engineering, not sonnets.

 

I can hear a noise. It's either a CBX engine, or Billy Shakespear
spinning at high RPM...

 

You know, you really are barking.

Good man, keep it up, Britain needs more eccentrics.


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Dan L (Oldbloke)
My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr
M'boy's bike 2003 Honda NSR125R (Going)
Spare Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X (Patio Ornament)
BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005), X-FOT#000, DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow)

 

It does indeed.

That's in part why I wrote a pome about a Great British
Eccentric.


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And pretty good it is too. Better than my limerick #1 anyway.