Monday 6 April 2020

Self Portrait at 70


'Self Portrait at 70 years' - digital painting - April 2020 - George Roberts



Se promener Bourbon Avenue sans papier toilette

I thought I was unique
But somewhere I got lost
Life can be very bleak
When you’re anchored up Shit Creek
Right up Anal Canal without a toilet roll!

We’ve had a really tough week!
Our paddle’s sadly gone and lost
And our canoe has sprung a leak
Are we going down the pan up Shit Creek?
Right up Anal Canal without an alcohol based hand rub!

We’re told we live in ‘testing’ times
But only if you’re posh
Rich and poor may be in one boat
But it helps if you’ve got dosh
When you’re up Shit Creek
Right up Anal Canal without adequate PPE!

I thought I was so clever
But
It’s not at all that clever, ever
To be going down for the third time up Shit Creek!
Right up Anal Canal without a vaccine!

We thought existence dependable
Then that fucker Boris
Said we were expendable
'Surplus to requirements' up Shit Creek
Right up Anal Canal without an EU passport!

We’ve been placed in quarantine
By and with Chris Whitty
Separated from Europe, friends and family
By arseholes and a virus that’s shitty
Segregated from the world and up Shit Creek
Right up Anal Canal without ABTA bonding!

On each and every day
A kind close friend,
Son, daughter or grandchild
Take care to send
Love and provisions to us vulnerable folk up Shit Creek
Right up Anal Canal without 'the shoppin experience’ at TK Maxx!

The Bank has just sent us a text
“Interest rates are going down”
Sod all semi-annually
Pensions deeper in the brown.
Up Shit Creek without prejudice

‘Fannying’ about on Facebook
Anchored in the banal
“We all float down here Georgie”
Pennywise and Poundland foolish all along and up Anal Canal
Up Shit Creek without a proverbial paddle!

George Roberts

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