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Memories of the Isle of Sheppey (An ADULT And Deeply DEGENERATE Poem To Keep You Happy)

      

 

I softly hummed an ancient Sheppey tune to myself (SEE NOTE X BELOW)
As I drove over the Swale Bridge to the misty isle,
Bound for Britain's most neglected seaside resort,
Gorgeous Leysdown-on-Sea, what a fucking slum it is.
A seaside town without a hotel, not even one?
No restaurants at all, only greasy burger bars?
A place where no one with a touch of taste
Could ever dream of visiting for lusty holiday nookie?

O lovely Leysdown, mecca for tasteless tourism,
Where even the homeless might decline a freebie,
Where smoking 50 cigs a day is toujours de rigeur
And where the amusement arcades clatter night and day!
O wondrous haven of the grossly overweight
Where the obese underclass take off their shirts
To expose their hirsute man-boobs to the pale English sun
And where pornographic tattoos abound below each waist!

 

                           

O paradise where dimple-buttocked peroxide blondes
Burst enchantingly out of their skimpy shorts
To tempt drunken lager louts to a night of love
Followed by a safety check for social disease
At the nearby understaffed Sheerness pox-clinic!
But there is more to this paradise on English earth
Than meets the unsuspecting boulevardier's eye.
Just up the road, en route to the Nature Reserve.

 

                          

Along an unpaved, muddy, rutty, unmade road
Fit only for a tractor or perhaps a rental car,
Lies a mecca for the ugly and the masochistic:
Yes, Oh sweet merciful Jesus, it's the Naturist Beach
Where untold sensual horrors are on offer for all.  
See! Lurking amidst the windstrewn sand dunes
Are gay old men with shrivelled sunburnt todgers,
Waiting hopefully for some ghastly mutual frotting session.

Look! Gross shaven-pubed women with metal labial inserts,
Glintingly beckon the visitor with the promise of a Hellish congress!
And just think: an added frisson is the fact there is no public toilet
Within two miles, so the dainty dunes are strewn with rancid piles
Of decaying human turds topped by telltale toilet tissue.
And it was here that my voyeuristic mother-in-law Agnetha
Met a terrible fate when she slipped on a pile of used johnnies
And drowned in an inadequately fenced-off disused cesspit.

 

                          

Author notes

NOTE "X": This is a reference to the famous song noted below:-
"Ah sweet Isle of Sheppey how I love it so!
What a lovely place it is, even though
Not many people know where it can be found
Even though it is really famous piece of ground."


You may think this poem (#88 in my tragic "Memories" series - read the others you will not regret it) about lovely Kent is somehow exaggerated. Please believe me, it's not - if anything it is masterly understatement. Being poor is the new black? Maybe. Maybe not. Being fat, ugly, exhibitionistic and physically unclean is where it's at.

I have chosen a really nice background of a golden smiling sun to emphasise how happy people are at Leysdown-on-Sea. It's things like that which make my poetry stand out from the crowd. This is my 88th poem (I think I said that before) and I like it a lot. The poem too.

This poem is dedicated to NOGOD. I hope he will appreciate this. If I win the gold prize in his contest I shall re-use the points as prizes in a contest which will be the finest ever held at Allpoetry.com. So if I lose, blame him for depriving you of that.

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Comments

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  • Janice M Pickett
    January 26
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    All I can say is THANK YOU. I have laughed my tiny little petite figure to its shattered bones. I have so wanted to lose weight since my accident and now its all gone thanks to all the belly laughing I have done today reading your poems. PEOPLE Read this man and lose weight fast. Cheaper than diet pills and much more fun. All you need do is read 2 poems in the morning and two at night. I guarantee you will lose at least 5 kilos a day.
    Send me $50 now via PayPal and receive your poems by email immediately.


  • Nogod
    November 30, 2009

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    Pretty good! It's pretty good.... Great stuff that. The crowds on its feet. Yes, marvellous effort that, one for the record books.

    Lemme think about it ....


    • Barry Hodges
      December 18, 2009
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      I am shocked not to have won the gold in your recent contest, especially since I dedicated the poem to you. I shall obviously be obliged to remove the dedication shortly as an indication of my disappointment in your lack of taste. Never mind, I win so many prizes for my wonderful poetry that I can take the occasional unexpected failure in my manly stride.


  • Adamastor
    November 28, 2009

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    Dear Barry,

    First of all, I looked at this poem and then clicked the catagory, "dogging", but to my dismay, this was the only poem in the list. So does that mean you have only "dogged" once?

    • Barry Hodges
      December 18, 2009

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      I shall check out some suitable dogging sites for you in your area.


  • feyfalen
    November 26, 2009
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    you really need Jesus in your life


  • Ani Grace gold member
    November 22, 2009
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    Revising My View...

    If you knew my Mamma--in-Law, you'd have to know how I love the revision...an accident leading to a disgusting demise...no responsibility or cowardice can be implied...
    You're back in m'good graces, my twisted friend...Ahhh...hahaha!!!

  • Dondasche
    November 21, 2009

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    Not Very Good.

    You say you are proud to be English but you can't even write in the damn language! Your grammer is wrong in the third line. Someone was taking the piss when they gave birth to you mate.


    • Barry Hodges
      November 21, 2009
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      Most Amusing!

      My dear Mr or Mrs "Dondasche": I thank you for your hilarious comment. Firstly, there is no mistake in the 3rd line. Secondly, I find it amusing that someone who has the temerity to attempt to correct my English is unable to spell "grammar". Thirdly, I am not your mate.

      • Edna Sweetlove
        December 18, 2009
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        Nor me.

        • Dondasche
          January 8
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          Who the hell are you? dont but in on other peoples converations noone asked you for your opinon. I shall read what you have to say when i want. You should go back to your tampon collection miss.


          • Barry Hodges
            January 8
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            You are a lowdown person

            I blocked you once before mainly because you are a very common person. I unwisely removed that block as there was someone else even more common who I thought was more deserving of a block. However, your return from whichever stone you sleep under means I am obliged to re-impose my block. So, please return to your council estate in Hull and fester there, commonly.


  • just mercedes gold member
    November 20, 2009

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    Damn. My reply vanished.

    I feel this narrative has only just begun. The opening is great, now we need a middle, and a climax or two. How very bleak you make the pleasures of the plage!


    • Barry Hodges
      November 22, 2009
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      I have revised the last 16 lines totally. I think you will find it has a climax well worth achieving.


  • Aribeth
    November 19, 2009

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    Nice Witty Poem

    It seems to me that when you were heading to this place that you couldn't wait to get there, and once you got there you couldn't wait to leave. Nice job. You've made the whole Isle of Sheppey look like a right shithole! Oh, and don't listen to that woman who is trying to show you her cleavage - it's the perfect length hun (I'm talking about the poem before you reply!)


  • michichoeret
    November 19, 2009

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    don' t exspand

    the shortness makes it sharper
    understatement is always better anyway


    • Barry Hodges
      November 22, 2009
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      Thank you for your comment - I have expanded the content without extending its length and any extra comments would earn my undying gratitude.


  • Ani Grace gold member
    November 18, 2009

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    EEEUUUWWWW!!! UGH! and more UGH!
    Thanks for the heads up...I'll remember that when I book my next vacation...I never wanna see that again...great job painting that disgusting picture...UGH!!!


  • Keith
    November 18, 2009

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    Very nice. But it lacks the usual narrative drive, the bloody death and frequent copulations which grace the usual 'Memories' sequence. I think a few more verses would be in order.


    • Barry Hodges
      November 22, 2009
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      Mon cher Keith, I have made some amendments (involving a cesspit, a totally new development in my poetry) which I hope will meet with your approval.


      • Keith
        November 23, 2009
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        An excellent and totally unexpected ending. It is also nice to have footnotes to explain some of the references in this oeuvre.

    • Edna Sweetlove
      November 18, 2009
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      You're right. I'll thump Barry one in his breeks.


      • knock
        November 20, 2009
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        ffs
        doesn't he know brown is the new black
        have a word with him eddie!

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