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By Phil
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18 September 2006 |
I feel my adopted home town has been getting a little stick recently. So...
(It's not poetry, but it rhymes.) Bolton, oh Bolton
This home town of mine
Isn’t dark, isn’t dingy
Isn’t putrid from slime.
Because:
Rain by the bucket
By day and by night
Rinses away
The flotsam and shite.
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Bolton
Written by givitsum (651 comments posted) 18th September 2006 | God save us. You mean you went there voluntarily?
What are you? A missionary? I take my hat off to people like you Phil, your an example to us all. Is is true even the rats wear boiler suits?
Good little ditty by the way.
Givitsum | Bolton revisited.
Written by gerardconnolly (1186 comments posted) 19th September 2006 | Wonderful Phil.
You get the freedom of Boundary Park[ Reebock now, I see]. If I am rude about that buzzing metropolis-frequently mistaken for New York, I understand- it is because I spent a term once teaching at Bolton School. A term I shall never forget. Never. At my interview the then Head said; 'Though you have been to neither Oxford nor Cambridge, I am, nonetheless, prepared to afford you a chance'!! It wasn't even true. I had beem watching Oxford United only two weeks previously. We didn't get on.
Slan!
| Flotsam...
Written by Talisker (1331 comments posted) 19th September 2006 | No jetsam?
Yes, an excusable wee bit of frippery. It may even inspire me to write an ode to my home town.
Incidentally, the Oxford Dictionary definition of flotsam -
"wreckage found floating, odds and ends, rubbish" and most intriguingly "vagrants etc" Thus, I'm sure its the perfect description of a lonely Bolton sidewalk, Sunday morning coming down.
Cheers
Oli | Eye of the beholder...
Written by woody44 (777 comments posted) 20th September 2006 | Love this minimilist, no-nonsense poetry Phil. Like Tali says, perhaps we could all have a go at doing something about our own home town. Now, let`s see..what`s the word for truly awful...only joking Mansfield. well done Phil.
Happy writing
woody
PS I once came to Bolton to watch `Stags` play in a cup match many years ago and I thought the town was wonderful - mind you we did win 2-0! | Woody
Written by Phil (6959 comments posted) 20th September 2006 | I've been chased around the streets of Mansfield (Is Mansfield FC the Stags?) a couple of times in the eighties watching Doncaster Rovers.
Thanks
Phil. |
Written by matt (18 comments posted) 20th September 2006 | | Nice one - so simple yet so effective - I've never been to Bolton - I take it you don't work for the local tourist office then. |
Written by coosh (923 comments posted) 23rd September 2006 | Firstly, Phil, let me congratulate you on that laconic, one-line review of yours I came across the other today "nice and bright? It's chuckin' it down in Bolton" - laughed out loud.
Now, I went through Bolton station once, and it was lovely and sunny. In fact, from a distance, you could have mistaken it for Ilkley, wherever that is. Was this part of the factsheet they sent out to JJ Okocha before he came over?
Seriously, it's beautifully succinct and to the point, and raises a good smile, and it'll no doubt come to mind next time I go through Bolton station. Cheers.
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