Love and Other Nastiness

By Luke Carter

Enter a world of dark twists and surreal surprises in Luke Carter's Love And Other Nastiness. Murderous, wicked and comic, these 16 poems and unique illustrations live halfway between Roald Dahl and Roger MCGough.
This is love poetry...just not as you know it!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Oct 12, 2015
• ISBN: 9781326446611

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Love and Other Nastiness

LOVE AND OTHER NASTINESS

BY L. L.CARTER

LONESOME ACHE

There is a dull ache spreading in my chest,

I wonder what it could be?

It lives between my throat and stomach,

But it’s difficult to describe, you see?

I went to my local doctor,

But he could find nothing wrong.

Mind if I ask you a few questions old chap?

I replied, Of course, go on.

Are you a smoker?

Perhaps a fan of whisky? Or Rum?

But I could only shake my head,

No, sir, none of the above, none!

Several days later,

The ache grew worse and worse,

But what was this pain, I thought?

A sign? A signal? A Curse?

So I climbed the highest building,

The tallest I could find,

And threw myself from the top

To take this ache from my mind.

Yet as I fell from the building,

A few seconds before I