A "GIVE ME A TOPIC" POEM

Here's the topic a follower suggested I might like to write a poem about.  If you have any ideas, do pass them my way

NO SOUVENIRE

No. Souvenir?  You promised you would!

i did want some tat from New York,

“A Present From Broadway”, or some such bad taste,

Or even a French champagne cork.

Wot, no sombrero?  No “kiss-me-quick” hat?

No rude seaside postcard, oh, shame!

No interesting pong from the duty free shop?

Now, that’s really not playing the game.

No t-shirt from Blackpool! I’m so deeply hurt,

Do you know, I might even cry,

No bracelet from Brighton, no beach towel declaring

In crimson, “SEE FRINTON AND DIE.”

But what really battered our friendship to bits,

And came as somewhat of a shock;

The one thing I asked for and what you forgot,

Was a stick of pink peppermint rock.