Writing for Fun
June 2016
My Neighbour - Joan Bond
a hundred she’ll be this year
we are discussing her bucket list
a bit too long I fear
right out over the sea
but I have put her off of that one
I’m saving that for me
well I am finding it hard
as I have to sit in the sidecar
as she bumps around the yard
with her groupies on the drums
we’ve booked the hail the time is right
so we’ll be firing all guns
the goggles and the hat
my son will take one look
and say, you are not keeping that
the TuTu I can wear
I cannot manage the trapeze
but I always love a dare.
to see polar bears and freeze
thinks it might just finish it off
and then be buried at sea.
always had a go
so here’s to Jess, one of the best
The wildest old bird I know.