poem by Alan Bennett
Place names of China.
Bolding Veritas! Shanks new Nisa!
Trusty Lichfield swirls it down
To filter beds on Ruislip Marshes
From my lav in Kentish Town.
The Burlington! The Rochester!
Oh those names of childhood loos--
Nursie rattling at the doorknob:
"Have you done your number twos?"
Lady typists--office party
Golly ! all that gassy beer!
Tripping home down Hendon Parkway
To her 'Improved Windermere'
Here I sit, alone and sixty
Bald and fat and full of sin.
Cold the seat and loud the cistern
As I read the Harpic tin
Not really a reply- but I thought it typically Bennett
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