I’m good at last lines. I really am.
The rest of my poems are crap but my last lines
Are really something.
I’m thinking of bringing out a book called ‘My Fifty Best Last Lines’.
The trouble is it’d be like bringing out a book of punch lines without the jokes.
‘By gum, I wish I could do that’ or ‘It’s okay for you two. I have to walk out by myself’ fall a bit flat without the jokes attached.
I suppose I could make the rest of the poems as good as the last lines but it’s a pretty big ask.
Now I can’t even get a good last line to this poem.
The last line was fine, and the rest of it was pretty darn good too, John!
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My doctor and I were discussing this phenomenon at the gym when the ideas began sparking so I rushed home — after I completed my workout 🙂 — and wrote this. I appreciate your comment
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