The Friday Poem – Harry Ricketts
Poetry for the soul
New verse by Wellington writer, academic and editor Harry Ricketts.
Having trouble with your relationship?
You may or may not be to blame.
Don’t delay ‒ contact Dumper & Co today.
Does he or she play home and away?
Suspect them of being bi, straight or gay?
Having trouble with your relationship?
Some like it cold, some hot.
Discretion guaranteed ‒ or not.
Don’t delay ‒ contact Dumper & Co today.
It’s the little things, they say: her laugh, his goobledygoo.
Are you sleeping with someone with more problems than you?
Having trouble with your relationship?
We understand it can be hard to unclip;
let us handle all the hullabaloo.
Don’t delay ‒ contact Dumper & Co today.
A letter, a phone call, an email, a tweet,
Ron could pay a little visit.
Having trouble with your relationship?
Don’t delay ‒ contact Dumper & Co today.
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Harry Ricketts
A poet, editor, biographer, critic and academic, Harry Ricketts teaches literature and creative non-fiction at Victoria University of Wellington. His eleventh and most recent collection of poems is Winter Eyes (VUP, 2018). Harry was born in 1950 quite near the Thames in Surrey (described by the poet Gavin Ewart as a “scruffy county”).
