A Touch of laryngitis
He ruined the practice. When
someone you’ve made a partner
puts cheques in front of you, you
sign them, don’t you? The stubs
read differently…embezzlement.
However it was, he kept it up for years.
I don’t think, if he’d put his hands up,
I’d have chased him through the courts.
It isn’t over yet. They’ve found
deposits running into hundreds
of thousands. He only took us
for 40K.
I’d be retired by now,
writing stories. Remember the one
I read you when your pulse was racing?
You were very patient.
I’ll tell you where I’m going.
You’ll never guess. Antarctica.
Pick up a ship at Buenos Aires,
and on the way back stop off at
South Georgia and the Falklands.
(Shackleton’s a boyhood hero,
not at all like Scott. None of that
Edwardian class-bound stuff.)
It’s an arm and a leg, I know,
for something temporary, but
that bastard’s spoiled the rest,
even my leaving, left his smell
around the place.
Amoxicillin’s
what you need. We’re always talking.
I’m looking forward to the silence
and the cold…
someone you’ve made a partner
puts cheques in front of you, you
sign them, don’t you? The stubs
read differently…embezzlement.
However it was, he kept it up for years.
I don’t think, if he’d put his hands up,
I’d have chased him through the courts.
It isn’t over yet. They’ve found
deposits running into hundreds
of thousands. He only took us
for 40K.
I’d be retired by now,
writing stories. Remember the one
I read you when your pulse was racing?
You were very patient.
I’ll tell you where I’m going.
You’ll never guess. Antarctica.
Pick up a ship at Buenos Aires,
and on the way back stop off at
South Georgia and the Falklands.
(Shackleton’s a boyhood hero,
not at all like Scott. None of that
Edwardian class-bound stuff.)
It’s an arm and a leg, I know,
for something temporary, but
that bastard’s spoiled the rest,
even my leaving, left his smell
around the place.
Amoxicillin’s
what you need. We’re always talking.
I’m looking forward to the silence
and the cold…
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