Wobbly Table Book

By Brian Long

With sales of his first collection 'Doggerel Bank' already well into single figures, and with even more penalty points on his poetic licence, Brian Long ventures once more into the arcane world of comic verse and other nonsense.

 

Be amused - be very amused.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brian Long
• Release date: Sep 15, 2023
• ISBN: 9781916696983

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Wobbly Table Book

Brian Long

Drawings by Jeni Pring

Copyright © 2023 Brian Long

ISBN: 9781916696983

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portions thereof in any form. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored, in any form or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical without the express written permission of the author.

This is a work of fiction. Names and characters are the product of the author’s imagination and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Contents

Practicalities

Interruptions

Birthday Boys

The Enigmatic Spouse

Ambition

Valentine

First Drafts and False Starts

The Failed Romantic

Chief Umbabwa

Birthday Wishes

Cruising the Canal du Midi

Reflections

Once More with Feline

A Valentine Apology

More First Drafts and False Starts

Age Concern

Cruising the Canal du Midi – Part 2

The Memorial

Porn Free

Extract from Alternative English/French Dictionary

Hoaeiume Thoughts from Abroad

Cruising the canal du Midi – Part 3

A Gourmet’s Nightmare

Apposite Adverbs

Oh, God, There’s Two of Them !

Rude Poem

More Birthday Wishes

I’m So Blue

East is East (And It Can Stay There)

My French is Effluent

Mover and Shaker

Wedding Present

Practicalities

I hope this book will give to you

A laugh, a chuckle, smile –

And that it proves a pleasant way

Some time away to while;

But whether you lock it away

For offspring to inherit,

Or seek to bin it ‘cause it has

No literary merit,

Just be aware it was designed

To serve a dual purpose;

(I guess because the publishers

Thought