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| Sonnet No. 18 by Billy Waggledagger – with explanatory annotations by Oliver Lodge: | |
| By Talisker | ||||||
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Emboldened by the positive feedback on some other pieces - something rather errr.... different. I dare to bare...!!! Oli Scene: Our young couple are on a first date. They are on a number 32 bus on an outing to Hogganfield Loch, Cumbernauld, to feed the swans… ----------------------------- Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Depends, did you have a Scottish summer’s day in mind? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Not saying much, really (see above), shut that window, the rains coming in… Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, Sorry, Brussels sprouts always have that effect on me … And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Short dates are best Billy, at least until we know each other a bit better… Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, Yes, you never know here, four seasons in an hour, should’ve brought the sunscreen, just in case… And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; Gold complexion? Oh yes! It IS Tommy Sheridan, Hi Tommy! I would say he’s more orange than gold though… And every fair from fair sometime declines, Yes, the Glasgow Fair has much declined over the years…At least you can get a seat on the trolleybus now… By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; Untrimmed? How very dare you, I shaved my legs this very evening…oh, damn I missed a bit… But thy eternal summer shall not fade Eternal summer, I wish! A week in Troon then its back to the biscuit factory… Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Listen Billy, I paid my fair when I got on the bus…and yours too, as it happens…Why do you talk funny? Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, Death brag? I know how to play gin rummy, s’pose I can learn as we go along, you deal… When in eternal lines to time thou growest: Damn, you noticed them, I’m thinking of Botox, but it is damned expensive…What job do you do again? So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, Sorry, its that rough wind again, I can’t hold it in…open the bus window will you…choke, choke! So long lives this and this gives life to thee. Put that away! you’ll get us chucked off the bus!!! On a first date too, William! What happened to all the gentlemen?
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