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Memories of Leeds (A SILVER Yorkshire Gem of an ADULT Nature)

          

 

People think that Leeds is a fine old Yorkshire city
With sophisticated hotels where you can drink nice warm beer
And pick up prostitutes on the cheap
(the negative being you can't understand what they are talking about,
as they say things like, 'EEEEEEEEeeee Up Lad, 'Ow moooch ya gonna pay me?')
But I can reassure you that such is not the case,
In fact the fine city of Leeds is a total and utter dump
A craphole set in the pigsty that is West Yorkshire.

I was there, with my best friend of the moment, Angus McBollock,
Who (you may be intrigued to hear) was runner-up in the contest
For Ugliest Man of the Year (North of England heats only, regretfully).
Angus and I were taking a walk along The Headrow,
Having just had a truly disgusting Indian meal
Which we knew would be making a dynamic reappearance
Through our eager twitching sphincters all too soon
(How ironic to have accidentally selected the worst Indian restaurant
in the Leeds-Bradford conurbation in the face of so much competion).
And what do you think happened? Well, I'll tell you.

We saw these two slappers walking along the street,
Wearing skirts so staggeringly short you could almost see
What they had eaten for their breakfast poking out,
And Angus cogitated that they were totally up for it
For the price of a couple of gallons of delicious Yorkshire ale.
So we accosted them and dragged them into a pub
(or "poooooob" as t'locals cutely call such establishments)
And after we had poured a few quids' worth down their fat gobs,
Angus asked them to come back to our hotel room for a foursome.

"Eeeeeeyyyyyyyyyyooooooooop!" the fatter of the two yelled,
"Worrrya think we are, cooooopla sloooots, laaahhhhhhkk?"
And she took out the stolen Biretta she had in her handbag
And plugged Angus 'twixt his poor pathetic peepers.
I can tell you, I ran like a doped up Olympian out of t' poooob
And took refuge in the toilets of the Grand Theatre,
From where I could hear the screams of the singers
At the end of Hans Werner Henze's latest opera
Which was playing to an audience of precisely three.
Leeds? You can shove it as far as I am concerned -
The Merrion Centre can do without my custom;
And Theakston's beer tastes like equine urine anyway.

 

                         

Author notes

This is the 55th in my series of "Memories" poems in which I describe how my friends, relatives and lovers have been brutally slaughtered. Please read the first 54 (it won't take long and you will learn a lot). No. 56 is great: http://allpoetry.com/poem/4384231 .

The colour scheme I have adopted reflects the redbrick ugliness of Leeds.

It is dedicated to someone called Anastasia who has the misfortune to dwell in Leeds, but who apparently has an attractive pair of buttocks.

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  • Aribeth
    November 18
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    lol

    The only thing Leeds is good for is the anual festival! The rest of the year you're too busy dodging bin bags in the streets
    P.S., can you please tell crowd how to spell centre? Thanks hun x


    • Barry Hodges
      November 18
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      Annual Festival or Anal Festival??? Unless they have combined them........ Wow!

  • I must apologise to all my readers for the typo in "competition" above - but I cannot amend it without losing the formatting.


  • Floorboards
    March 24
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    Hehehe, how delightful.


  • Floorboards
    March 22
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    This isn't the best Leeds poem i've ever read, but it's in the top one.

    Floorboards.


    • Barry Hodges
      March 24
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      I have just added a few photos of Leeds to the poem which I think give a good "flavour"....


    • Barry Hodges
      March 22
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      Darlington is in the top one for Darlington poems too.

  • This is a gross insult to the good people of Leeds and its immediate area. I have met lots of people from Leeds and none of them say "eeeeeeeeeeeeyyyyyyoooooooooooopppp!" at least not often.

  • montez gold member
    January 11

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    Coming from...

    ....York, originally ; Leeds lads being the hated enemy ; I can empathise with this piece : in fact the only thing we hated more than Leeds bastards was Lancastrians during a War of the Roses cricket match!
    It is a fact that during the building of the M62, which by-passed Leeeds, there was a huge outcry about there not being a quicker way to get out of the ferkin shit'ole, so they built the M621 link road.
    Travellers along the M62 today will notice the bottleneck as you approach Leeds - this is the result of casual visitors 'appening into the city of Leeds by mistake, an' every ferkin one on 'em dashing to get out!
    Innit dead sad that the Elland Road mob 'ave gone tits up?
    Any road up our kid, this would have been much better in rhyme, but all the same, I enjoyed it.
    'Ave a little clap before I go to the foot of our stairs!
    Robin.


  • Predaw
    January 9

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    Heh. It was likable. I can't say I have a connection. I have never been to Leads, and now I don't plan on it. Thanks for a good read.


  • quantumsurveyor
    December 15, 2008
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    Having found this jolly pome-wot-u-rote only lately I wish I hadn't. However this must be one of your best Canadian Capers with so much transatlantic dialogue in it, innit?
    Strange how even northeners, or uneven northeners, are incapable of managing local dialect - in print - but then that famous non-writer of northern climes W Riley (eebaagum) couldn't do a decent job and he is collected - well, in Leeds at least. And least is what should be done for him.

    On Theakston's Beers I give you a quote.....“There are more flavours in the beers brewed
    by Theakston in Masham than there are from
    an entire wine growing region in France.”

    – Roger Protz Editor of The Good Beer Guide

    Well, any Pratz with a name like Protz must "no it awl," as they say. This beer is not indigenous to Leeds - what is? - as it cums frm't T'North Ridin', lad. As you can see I no speak-a-da lingo either.

    I am still waiting, Barry, for your notion of Darlington - as an ex-squaddie (squady?) you must be familiar with the Catterick Camp watering hole. When I lived there your water ran in the gutters - it was not the natives who did that.

    • Barry Hodges
      December 21, 2008
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      I am sorely tempted to write "Memories of Darlington" as I recall a horrid incident in a hotel on the outskirts. If only I could remember its name....Moat House? Post House? Crest? It was a Georgian style mansion with bouncy beds...I wonder if they ever managed to wash the stains out of the bedsheets?

      • quantumsurveyor
        December 22, 2008

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        Blackwell Grange Hotel is the one you are searching for, became a Moat House and is probably now a TraveLodge! It is/was a Regency Mansion - you might remember there are some fine (fine?) Regency Terraces in Darlington. And, of course, you will remember from your Army Daze that there were a lot of
        te(a)races (gerrit?) from Catterick Camp roaming Post House Wynd and other fine (fine?) streets in the town. I have seen your stains elsewhere in quality boarding houses across the nation. I didn't want to mention those but you raised it. (RAISED IT.....LOL)


        • Barry Hodges
          December 23, 2008
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          Yes you are right. Blackwell Grange it was. I left the sheets rigid with spunk.


  • Misty Melody gold member
    September 14, 2008

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    I am sorry if I have offended you in any way. I have been dealing with a lot and just lost another family member. So what ever has gotten you upset I apologize. Melody


    • Barry Hodges
      September 15, 2008
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      I am not in the least upset or offended in any way. My condolences on your bereavement.


  • whispernthedark Greeters member
    September 14, 2008

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    Outstanding story, thank you for the heads up. Thanks for entering the contest, good luck.


    whisper


  • Nothing But No
    June 30, 2008

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    I must say, I enjoyed this more than I enjoyed the Canadian pieces...which I enjoyed a Hell of alot. You're brilliant and I must add you to my favourites.


  • dp robertson
    June 30, 2008

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    Barry,

    I'll have you know I have been to Leeds and was utterly knackered on their local equine urine, used their gutters and I can vaguely remember waking with some girl named Pearl, where I chewed my arm off and left Leeds forever. This ode gave me such a warm feeling to be back there again


  • ImmanuelC888
    June 20, 2008
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    I feel like I'm home when I'm reading this.


    • Barry Hodges
      June 25, 2008
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      Yes, Riga has much in common with Leeds. Probably. Or possibly not.

      • ImmanuelC888
        June 25, 2008
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        Nice warm beer and cheap whores reminded me of Riga. Actually, I have always thought that I don't resemble any kind of whore myself, but I remember a day when I was walking down a street and feeling like a decent girl of my young age, and then a British sex tourist (we have much of them in my town and I guess we have a bad reputation because of that) came up to me and said he wanted to cum in my mouth. Fortunately, my English gets so bad from time to time that I realized what he had said when he was a few meters away, if he wasn't I guess, I would have started hitting some random people around me. Nevermind, I just want to write. A lot. Lots and lots of letters, words and sentences. I have to write a story, any kind of a story, for a contest that would allow me to be totally drunk for a week with some of Latvia's young poets. Drinking is kind of a national tradition here, as you might have noticed in Liepāja. I don't know what to write, though. They didn't really enjoy my atheist poetry when I took part in a seminary for the same old young poets and strory writers. So I've run out of ideas. I'm sorry for writing boring bullshit here, but I'm really confused. As you see, Latvians aren't really that reserved as they're said to be, or at least that's what I've heard. Some of them are just drunk and depressed by too much men around. I'm sorry, again.


  • Zraiiah
    June 13, 2008
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    Good write

    Definitely not what I would expect in a poem for this contest, which is good. I don't know anything about Leeds, not even where it is. Your language is very interesting and fun. To me, being an idiot from the US, I find it quite hysterical... hehe. I do like the story though and how well Leeds was described. <3


    • Barry Hodges
      June 25, 2008
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      It is indeed interesting that you have not heard of Leeds or Yorkshire.


  • chills gold member
    June 12, 2008
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    Angus McBollock

    sounds as if he has the same ancestry as Mugabe. You know what I'm going to say don't you? See, if Mugabe went backwards to yorkshire..... he be ebagum will'e 'eck as like??? eeh I'll go to the foot of our stairs,,,,, ebagum. Oh Barry, stroke my face - I'm too tired for AP or even life.... See ya in a month or two gorgeous xx


  • storiesuntold gold member
    June 10, 2008
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    Oh my goodness

    I would have been scared to death and such a sad ending for your friend


  • just mercedes gold member
    June 10, 2008

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    Plaudits

    A tale of horror. I have never contemplated going to Leeds, and now it is definitely on the list of places to avoid like the plague. I am sure Anastasia is lovely, or loooovely, and there are bargains galore in the Merrion Centre, but I heed the Leeds warning. Although I do like an attractive pair of buttocks.


    • Barry Hodges
      June 25, 2008
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      You can't beat a nice pair of buttocks. Well, you can beat them I suppose, if that's your bag.


  • Blankscreen2222
    June 9, 2008

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    Nahh then thee

    Dearest Barry,
    I have also been unfortunate enough to visit Leeds. The visual of your tragic evening which your written imagery provoked found me howling out loud with laughter.
    I am now in two minds as to which of your little story escapades I like the best. I had placed The Stratford one and the Dublin diary in equal first and the Scotch in third but now I may need a re-think.
    Thankyou so much for the laugh.




    • Barry Hodges
      March 24
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      I have just added a few photos of Leeds to my "Memories of Leeds" poem which I think give a good "flavour"....


  • no win no fee
    June 9, 2008

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    Its good to hear more of your adventures. There is one slight mistake though... Folk from Leeds wouldnt say loik, they would say laak. Loik would be more the West Midlands. xx

    • Barry Hodges
      June 9, 2008
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      Thank you very much for your helpful comment. I have amended the text, but it is always possible that a Leeds slut, when drunk, forgets her traditional Yorkshire moaning noise and slips into a North Midlands whine.


  • Pete Greenslade gold member
    June 9, 2008

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    theakston beer is piss sold in weatherspoons, i met anastasia when i was in leeds last ,,she showed me her tattoo on her buttocks

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