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Stairlift to Heaven

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(Not an original title, I'm afraid.  My debt is to John O'Farrell's excellent tome "I Have a Bream".)

 

 

There’s a lady out there

And she can’t climb the stairs

At her bedtime which is

Half past seven;

She was lured was Aunt Hannah

By the junkmail from Stannah

Into buying their Stairlift

To Heaven.

 

But she found it so slow

When she needed to go -

Half an hour on the Stairlift

From Heaven;

So from ground to first floor

She just found it a bore

Like a rainy weekend stuck

In Devon.

 

So for her own special treat

She’s adapted the seat;

Now she rides up and down

Till eleven;

She sits on her mobile phone

Which is set to vibrate tone

So she no longer needs

Uncle Kevin.

 

Oooohhh! And it makes me wonder!

“Oooohhh!” She moans like thunder!

Oooohhh! Really makes me wonder!

“Oooohhh!” She moans like thunder!

 

Now this ending will rock you

‘Cos in partnership with Nokia

She’s provided them both with

A rare gift;

A joint marketing banner

Used by Nokia and Stannah,

“Get the ride of your life

On our Stairlift”.

◄ Dream

Falling Glass ►

Comments

<Deleted User> (10241)

Fri 13th Apr 2012 00:59

Not just LOL but RFLOL, you have put a smile on my face and a laugh on my tongue, I just had to join the forum to say how brilliant it is. As a true hearted zeppelin fan as well as needing a stannah I can heartily empathise with this poor lady, (now where did I put those brochures)
Brilliant!!

<Deleted User> (10123)

Wed 7th Mar 2012 11:10

John Coopey is a man of wit,
And on his shirt there is no 'shirt buttons' Unlike you I couldn't find a rhyme!
(might have if I tried) Loads of fun, Ta much.

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Poets Corner

Tue 6th Mar 2012 23:28

Hi John...my friend...If no name of a Poet had appeared upon it...
I would instinctively have put yours on it!(I love it).

I left a jokey note on fbook today about your poem 'perhaps we should patent a vibrating nokia/stannah stairlift for the young at heart! (jokingly)...

And I got a RIGHT earful back from a Sarah Coopey saying something like 'I don't normally look at facebook..but was searching for something anyway at my age I can't sing and I played the guitar badly'...
Is this lady any relation? Or just having a bad hair day John??? hahaha..Graham

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Lynn Dye

Tue 6th Mar 2012 21:34

Funny that, John - I noticed my "Temptress" was only appreciated by the men too!!

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Martin Peacock

Tue 6th Mar 2012 13:20

I can just picture Rolf Harris singing this; perhaps even Percy Plant himself in his dotage [hang on, his dotage is all but here already, isn't it? How old are the Zep guys now?]

Re: 'The Persistence Of Memory'; Jackie [the subject of the poem] was a bluff, thunder-thighed [all that cycling] Dutch lass; I don't know about 'giving her one', John - it was more a question of 'letting her take one' if she wanted it. As it turned out there was neither give nor take between us, on almost every subject.

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John Coopey

Tue 6th Mar 2012 08:36

Wot! No interest from men? Does this appeal only to women?

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Ann Foxglove

Tue 6th Mar 2012 07:02

Hahahah! I hope you have patented this invention!

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Lynn Dye

Mon 5th Mar 2012 12:01

Brilliant, John. Thanks for a good laugh! x

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Yvonne Brunton

Sun 4th Mar 2012 23:48

Ah, at last something to look forward to in my dotage. How did that chorus go again?
You know, John, this is one time when that dreadfully abused acronym LOL really fits the bill X X

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