<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460503" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0029 Poet in a Wendy House</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">After death visited, <br>they opened the house<br>as a museum</div><div style="margin:10px 0">it was easier than clearing it<br>but as <br>Health and Safety officials<br>were not happy, only one<br>at a time, perhaps two together, <br>were admitted<br>by appointment only</div><div style="margin:10px 0">there were photos of course<br>and framed copies<br>of the better-known poems<br>some ageing better than others<br>a scratchy recording<br>a rather musty smell</div><div style="margin:10px 0">a few years after I died<br>I went back to look<br>but the house and<br>its predominantly green writing room<br>and blue glass which<br>the sun peered dustily through<br>with the hideous 1930s fireplace<br>painted crudely over in 1960s taste in white<br>looked nothing to do with me<br>nor the photos<br>nor the poems</div><div style="margin:10px 0">so I abandoned what I'd thought<br>a rather cute idea of<br>being a friendly ghost<br>in my own museum</div><div style="margin:10px 0">it just hadn't come together<br>as a poem should<br>or a life</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but I left the laughter and the joy<br>for those who could hear it</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(For Wendy, a concrete image)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460503" data-title="0029 Poet in a Wendy House de Michael Shepherd" data-description="After death visited, they opened the house as a museum it was easier than clearing it but as Health and Safety officials were not happy, only one at a time, perhaps two together, were admitted by appointment only there were photos of course a..."></div> </div> </div>

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