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On
Pleasure Bent
Ribald Rhymes
No.8
On Pleasure Bent, Clive Murphy's eigth book
of ribald rhymes.
Published March, 2013.
ISBN
978-0-9541563-6-7
76pp. £9.95
By repute, Clive Murphy’s ‘On Pleasure
Bent’ is his most consistently entertaining
and provocative book of gay verse to date. The
menagerie, though, is the same - wayward priests
and civil partners, warring he-bitches, ruthless
groomers, vain- glorious monsters… Each
poem, long or short, hits its target with funny,
and often shocking, accuracy. But not all the
verses are savage. ’Pubic Survey’
is the poet at his gentle best. The
illustrations are first class.
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Pubic Survey
Kissy-curly;
Twirly-whirly;
Ropy, plaited ,
Rasta-hatted;
Dank and moulting,
So revolting;
A jungle tangle
Draping the dangle;
Prickly thicket,
Nothing in it;
Topiary hedges,
Shaven edges;
Bosky, stubby,
Met-in-the-pubby;
Tufty; flossy;
Wispy; mossy.
Multi-parted,
Paths unchartered;
Pleated; puckered,
Sheer seersuckered;
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Air-starved, stuffy;
Not-enoughy;
Knotty; thistly;
Shaggy, bristly;
Musty, fusty,
Cobwebbed, dusty;
Navy-wavy;
Brown as gravy;
Dyed in streaks;
Unwashed for weeks;
Crenellated,
Overrated;
Jewelled, bling-sick;
Farmer's cow lick;
In a queenly Pompadour;
Scraped across a skin that's poor
Crabs galory,
Rocky shory;
Daisy fresh,
A mazy mesh — |
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Can't
continue my research:
Mother's
waiting by the church.
Lied
to her I'd hardly roam
Till
I caught the last bus home.
Tonight
I've risked some impropriety —
You
have to, if you need variety.
Back
next week to reach satiety.
Perhaps
I'll bring a brush and comb.
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