Saturday 13 December 2014

Poem: The Application


The Application

Dear Sir slash Madam
I write to apply for the
Unadvertised post of
Travel poet.

Unfettered by desk but
With pencil, paper and a suitable hat*
My vocation – a dark and dangerous one
Is to capture the world
One stanza at a time.
And you, my demanding but
Generous employer and patron

Ask only that I go where instructed
And write what is needed:
Epics on the Greensward of Frinton
A sonnet sequence on the Bangkok bath-house experience
A brief affair in Paris – a Limerick perhaps
Or Clerihew.
And, my masterpiece,
Alaska to Tierra Del Fuego
In a haiku. Five syllables
Per continent
And seven for Central America.

*Plus expenses

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