Saturday 9 February, 2008

A Message for Mr. Hughes

Ted Hughes has just sent a crow
to ask after me.
I send a message:
"I'm alright Ted,
but I'd be better
if every second line didn't rhyme obssessively,
and if I could stop cutting my fingers
on the sharp edges of hyphens.

I'm also thinking of starting
evening counselling sessions
for users of the ellipsis.
I've already cured a friend;
it's been over fifteen weeks
since he last used."

Crow sniggers.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

His hyphens are more like cliffs that make me stop, look and proceed. What is the ellipse but an m standing up; it exists for evenings and some afternoons... -AR

lurchytopple said...

crow dots around, looks up at a mighty mrs.hughes, stumbles and falls down into an M of submission.