John Stammers
Napoleon
Napoleon
was able
ere he saw Elba,
who gave himself permission
to become Emperor of all the Europes
before there was even an EU or Commission
and whose private organ is persevered in a case at Les Invalides en Paris,
in case the French people ever have the need for a spare one of
them, presumably.
Leo Tolstoy!
made a bit of a stab of writing up some of your story.
But your true fame, as far as what I consider to be cool things to do,
was to be the first person ever to make their departure from Waterloo.
So what I want to know is,
when you said ‘Not tonight’ to Josephine
was it because you had un petit mal de tête or had you already seen
your career blown apart,
Monsieur Boneparte?
was able
ere he saw Elba,
who gave himself permission
to become Emperor of all the Europes
before there was even an EU or Commission
and whose private organ is persevered in a case at Les Invalides en Paris,
in case the French people ever have the need for a spare one of
them, presumably.
Leo Tolstoy!
made a bit of a stab of writing up some of your story.
But your true fame, as far as what I consider to be cool things to do,
was to be the first person ever to make their departure from Waterloo.
So what I want to know is,
when you said ‘Not tonight’ to Josephine
was it because you had un petit mal de tête or had you already seen
your career blown apart,
Monsieur Boneparte?
John Stammers’ second collection, Stolen Love Behaviour (Picador 2005), is Waterstone’s Best New Poetry 2005 Spring selection and the Poetry Book Society Choice for Spring 2005. It is reviewed on page 24.
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