Oh no
So I work in a pub.Sometimes.
Other times, I work for Kenneth Branagh.
Don't ask.
Tonight, I was working in the pub.
After which, I got drunk. In the pub. It was quite nice.
I have a not quite girlfriend. She's a marine biologist, and she's currently in Honduras saving underpaid fishermen from evil American corporate types. I miss her, and it seems that Kronenbourg makes me miss her more.
I wrote her a poem.
In the drunken spirit of sharing, here it is, with the preface that I seem to have given it in the e-mail I sent her.
I'm embarrassed enough about sending it, so I thought I might as well make it ten times worse by sharing it with the internet.
Thank god I write under a pseudonym.
Gah.
By the way - Belle & Sebastian? Better after booze.
*Bops quietly to self*
If her response is amusing enough, and I'm suitably inebriated, I'll probably post it.
" I should point out that this is not my best work. Most of it doesn't even rhyme. However, it does scan, plus or minus the odd trochaic and pyrrhic substitutions*. So I guess it's okay.
Ode to a Marine Biologist (Absent)
The Woman's gone to foreign climes afar
So I must practise Poesy on her.
The crazy lady's gone to save the men
who fish for lobsters 'midst the Honduran
coast, at great risk to life and limb;
She's brave, and smart, with passion overflowing;
She cares too much, and has a lovely bum.
So, fair gods of seas, of air, and land,
I beg, return to me in one fine piece
Marine Biologist extraordinaire;
A Lightweight, Sweetheart, friend and maybe more
Whose chat and kiss I miss, and whose bum I adore."
*I'm amazed that I remember these terms at all, let alone after Too Much Beer. Yay me.
***Update***
Even in my terrible state, I'm already massively embarrassed to have ever written this, let alone to have posted it. Just thought you should know. The desperate mock-epic style is especially grimace-inducing. Hence the post's title. Will go and lie down now.Mitigating circumstance - the poem was composed in the space in 6 minutes.
That's no excuse, I know.
Bleurgh.
posted by joseph knecht @ 10:56 pm
3 Comments:
JK, you are cute. I hope she liked it :)
Two things:
1) I am suitably impressed that you were able to compose such an ode when inebriated
2) If I was said marine biologist, I think I'd be very very flattered
3) You put all our other druken blog posts to shame
I know, that's 3 things.
Good job JK
It's beautiful...
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