"O JEREMY....BENTHAM!"

He called his walking stick
"Dapple!"

He called his teapot
"Dickey!"

He called his elderly cat
"The Reverend Sir John Langbourne!"

He sits with his real head
between his legs

long after he was
dead.

His body preserved
so that it could be

wheeled out at meetings
if his friends were missing him.

At a College council meeting in 20i3
marked as "present but not voting."

Didn't believe in Christian burial
the Church's teaching "nonsense on sticks!"

Thought folks should be useful
both in life and in death.

Tears always when remembering a lady
presenting him "... with a flower in a green lane'

"Take me forward, I entreat you, to the future
– do not let me go back to the past."