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The Club is now Open.
Welcome, everyone, once more to our Club.
The night is very cold , but our fires have all been banked up so gather round for another evening of wonderful......entertainment....
No doubt the usual array of delicious snacks and nibbles will appear very soon and, of course, there will be another signature tailcock . I expect tonight's one to be especially warming.
For the raffle so far I have:
A red woolly scarf
Two pairs of violet mittens
A packet of Fisherman's Friends
Welcome, everyone, once more to our Club.
The night is very cold , but our fires have all been banked up so gather round for another evening of wonderful......entertainment....
No doubt the usual array of delicious snacks and nibbles will appear very soon and, of course, there will be another signature tailcock . I expect tonight's one to be especially warming.
For the raffle so far I have:
A red woolly scarf
Two pairs of violet mittens
A packet of Fisherman's Friends
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sorry, guilty of premature submitting,
As I was saying, I go off for a short time to watch my beloved Barca and come back and everyone is speaking French! Did I miss the memo? Now I shall have to put my Spanish train of thought into a siding and bring out the French one - well at least until half time is over!
As I was saying, I go off for a short time to watch my beloved Barca and come back and everyone is speaking French! Did I miss the memo? Now I shall have to put my Spanish train of thought into a siding and bring out the French one - well at least until half time is over!
When the visitors of AB Castle threw their very last pig to the French Trolls
who had for days beset their hilltop town
they were gratified to look down
Sunday morning and find the French works
abandoned. Only stout defenders, the Trolls concluded, would conjoin
Tailcocks with Mamya buffet extravagance. The way they poke a fork
at a slab of pork
shoulder or pork loin
on which Lady A has yet to put her stamp
suggests the French trolls, might succumb if our steadfastness were to fail.
Before they undermine
our confidence so they the trollies suddenly decamp
and go looking for some other hilltop Castle to assail
maybe the Trolls will toss Croc a little something?
Maybe they'll give us a sign?
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ForgetIt
18 September 2010 6:39AM
Šmartno a hill top town located in today's Slovenia.
I guess the offering of a pig by the sieged is quite different from the offering of a horse by the siege makers - and here towards a happy rather than tragic ending.
Muldoon (siege-maker) still seems a bit tragic though - even if he gets thrown a free pig he seems to be still hankering after the surrender of his Slovenian beauty.
Cake & eat it?
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24 September 2010 9:10PM
Ghastly piece. Not Muldoon's usual standard, I'm afraid. The only thing I like is that every line ends on a stressed syllable, which is neat. The story is sickening, the style not very interesting. Both Muslims and Christians appear to be idiots. And the pigs are treated with extreme callousness. Is the remaining one alive or dead? We're not told; the pigs are merely so much meat. But if alive, didn't it hurt the last one to be thrown down? The war as such is presented in a light-hearted (!) way. To involve what seems like a love story is just in bad taste. Disgusting. Supposing the person addressed is a woman, the use of the word "succumb" in this context must be called sexist. The Guardian wouldn't have published this poem if it hadn't been for its author's fame. But that's not the same as excellence.
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who had for days beset their hilltop town
they were gratified to look down
Sunday morning and find the French works
abandoned. Only stout defenders, the Trolls concluded, would conjoin
Tailcocks with Mamya buffet extravagance. The way they poke a fork
at a slab of pork
shoulder or pork loin
on which Lady A has yet to put her stamp
suggests the French trolls, might succumb if our steadfastness were to fail.
Before they undermine
our confidence so they the trollies suddenly decamp
and go looking for some other hilltop Castle to assail
maybe the Trolls will toss Croc a little something?
Maybe they'll give us a sign?
larger | smaller
Books
Poetry ·
Paul Muldoon
Culture
Series
The Saturday poem
More from The Saturday poem on
Books
Poetry ·
Paul Muldoon
More extracts
More features
Related
16 Jun 2001
A poet of perfect poise
16 May 2009
Connections at the keyboard
19 Nov 2006
The reason behind rhyme
21 Oct 2006
A poke in the eye with a poem
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ForgetIt
18 September 2010 6:39AM
Šmartno a hill top town located in today's Slovenia.
I guess the offering of a pig by the sieged is quite different from the offering of a horse by the siege makers - and here towards a happy rather than tragic ending.
Muldoon (siege-maker) still seems a bit tragic though - even if he gets thrown a free pig he seems to be still hankering after the surrender of his Slovenian beauty.
Cake & eat it?
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moomintrolls
24 September 2010 9:10PM
Ghastly piece. Not Muldoon's usual standard, I'm afraid. The only thing I like is that every line ends on a stressed syllable, which is neat. The story is sickening, the style not very interesting. Both Muslims and Christians appear to be idiots. And the pigs are treated with extreme callousness. Is the remaining one alive or dead? We're not told; the pigs are merely so much meat. But if alive, didn't it hurt the last one to be thrown down? The war as such is presented in a light-hearted (!) way. To involve what seems like a love story is just in bad taste. Disgusting. Supposing the person addressed is a woman, the use of the word "succumb" in this context must be called sexist. The Guardian wouldn't have published this poem if it hadn't been for its author's fame. But that's not the same as excellence.
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