Love Poem: Rip Doris Bodgers
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Written by: Terry Ireland

Rip Doris Bodgers

I just read the Kama Sutra Richard Johnson said,
It could leave you ruptured or very possibly dead:
But him and his lover Doris went ahead and tried.
Less than three weeks later she very suddenly died.

They’d been  progressing
By slow and steady stages
Until Doris sadly, mistakenly,
Went and turned four pages.
What started off as easy 
And looked so very neat
Had been turned into 
An almost impossible feat.
The ambulance men said 
Even if they’d been able 
To save her life, she’d still 
Have been so very  disabled,
And at her funeral 
Poor old Rick 
Was still dependent 
On a walking stick,
Still wearing a fixed
And shocked  grin
As he was gently 
Escorted in.

So, very slowly his mind healed
But for evermore his lips were sealed.
At the village library, it soon got about;
Long waiting lists to take the Kama Sutra out.