Food, Sex and Ageing

Now that I am getting older
My tastes in food and sex
Are getting so much bolder
Why, I'll even try Tex-Mex.

I loved to sit on a hard dicky
And give a good legover
But I now prefer a choccy bikky
Or a Strawberry Pavlova.

Getting old is not much fun
So I may as well keep on eating;
'Cos no one wants to poke my bun
And sexual pleasure's fleeting.

So give me a nice big steak and chips
And strong red wine by the bucket;
The flesh is piling on my hips
Who cares? I say, "Just fuck it".

About This Poem

Last Few Words: Gearing up for a good bout of gluttony at Xmas makes one think, doesn't it?

Style/Type: Structured: Western

Review Request Direction: What did you think of the rhythm or pattern or pacing?
How does this theme appeal to you?

Editing Stage: Editing - polished draft

About the Author

Region, Country: London, Culture Capital of the World

Favorite Poets: Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke, Chaucer, Shakespeare to name but a few. And VERY IMPORTANTLY: Erich Fried, a leftwing Austrian of Jewish ancestry who fled the Nazis and became a British citizen in 1949., And, other writers (non-poets mainly): Raymond Chandler, Irvine Welsh, Anthony Burgess, Graham Greene, Charles Bukowski, John le Carré, Anthony Horowitz, Mick Herron, Margaret Attwood, Edna O'Brian, Maeve Binchy., Writers who I find vastly over-rated: TS Eliot, Virgina Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Phil Larkin, E.A. Poe, A. Ginsburg, Longfellow, Gerald Manley Hopkins (actually I LOATHE Hopkins more than damson-dappled words can say).

Comments

Geezer

5 years 10 months ago

I'm thinking...

that your pace and rhythm are just fine. I enjoyed the theme, as I too am of that age where I'm starting to spread out a bit and my sex-life is more of the self-indulgent kind these days. I'm sure that you know that rhyme is something I enjoy a lot and yours seems to be of a good bunch. Including the near rhyme that some have decried recently. Nice little ditty! ~ Geezer.
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Edna Sweetlove

5 years 10 months ago

I am glad...

..my little ditty brought a grin to your aged chops.

Thank you.
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