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Heaven and Hell

And when we reached the pearly gates

St Peter looks at us and states

Your lives have been so full of sin

There is no way you’re coming in

I’ll send you to that other place

Which isn’t any real disgrace

For many famous folk are there

Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire

Several Popes and clergy too

Are waiting there to welcome you

You might enjoy the Hades folk

Who fornicate and drink and smoke

At their will they take their pleasure

Live a life of joy and leisure

So be off, be on your way

For at this place you cannot stay

And should one day you feel inclined

A place for me you could but find

Send a note, the merest jot

And I’ll be with you like a shot

— shazbat, Jan 10, 2009

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Region, Country: Norfolk, UK, GBR

Favorite Poets: Kipling, T.S Eliot, Hilaire Belloc, Ogden Nash, Spike Milligan and many more.

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Fleur MacDonald

Fleur MacDonald

17 years 4 months ago

You are

a legend in your own lunch box and that's a big lunch box. That's exactly what you know who will say to me. up there with the original vegemite Don't stop Fleur
shazbat

shazbat

17 years 4 months ago

A legend eh! bloody hell,

A legend eh! bloody hell, thats a first, I normally get called a pillock or some other unrepeatable name. Thanks for your comments they are most welcome. Regards John
Race_9togo

Race_9togo

17 years 4 months ago

John

Can I, uh, like make a copy of this, so when I kick off I have a copy I can read it to St. Peter at the Pearly Gates? It might help! Respectfully, Jim "Laws and rules don't kill freedom: narrow-minded intolerance does" : Race