DONALL DEMPSEY HAS LEFT THE POEM!

this...this Blue Plaque
business is
distressing to say the least

and rather intrusive
don't you
think?

I mean
when
did it all start?

DONALL DEMPSEY...THIS!
DONALL DEMPSEY...THAT!
I mean...who cares?

HERE IS THIS HOUSE
DONALL DEMPSEY
WROTE...

DONALL DEMPSEY
LIVED HERE
WHILST WRITING...

maybe it's a Government
tracking
device

DONALL DEMPSEY
PAUSED HERE FOR THOUGHT!
(no! I ****** didn't!)

whatever I do it seems
a blue plaque is more
than willing to tell you

time was when
they waited until one
was sufficiently

dead and famous
to commemorate
one's efforts

at living
and Life
but now: holy cow!

when I got back home
I found "home"
had just been turned into

( yes you've guessed it)
THE DONALL DEMPSEY
MUSEUM

I even had to
pay( God help me)
to get in

"If your'e Donall Dempsey
( 'the' Donall Dempsey )
then I'm Schrödinger's ****** cat !"

the crowd all laughed at that
but I did get a concession
for being old and decrepit

there was a sign
telling me not to
sit in my favourite chair

and they had gotten
their...I mean my
facts wrong

I had written this...before...that
I looked at the manuscript
of this poem

the usual scribble scrawl
made more precious
by being preserved under glass

it was like being in an episode
of  THE TWILIGHT ZONE.
I glanced up at the Blue Plaque

positioned just
as it happens
above my curly confused head

HERE DONAL DEMPSEY
...refused any more to be
part of all this and

left
the poem
yes folks...

DONALL DEMPSEY
HAS LEFT
THE POEM

DONALL DEMPSEY
HAS LEFT
THE POEM