Rogues Bard - Poetry - Introduction to a Stranger

INTRODUCTION TO A STRANGER

If I wrote pretentious poetry
I‘d use words like eschatology
But that’s speaking scatologically
(I think.)
Or use verse that neither
Scan or rhyme and only
Serve to waste your precious time
Interspersed with brackets
And oblique references to sex
Aided and abetted by a Thesaurus (Rex)
Designed to confuse or obfuscate
Future scholars and students.

Yes that’s pretentious
Provoking arguments like the one
I had today between two imperfect strangers
In a rainswept beach café.
“I want to be influenced “(She said)
I said “want to be “ you can’t
You either are are aren’t
She disagreed of course., voices were raised
There followed a lengthy discourse
And two hours later it transpired
That she wanted to be influenced
And I just hoped to be inspired.
She wasn’t and I was and so we said Goodbye
And I stayed and wrote this poem
It’s called

“Introduction To A Stranger”

There were no oblique references to sex
And I drank three pots of tea.

The bill came to £2.70.)**

** (It would now be £5.80 That’s inflation for you).