Fablon poetry.

[burgundyben]

The hardware shop,

smelling of gently rusting nails

and slowly decaying owner,

had rolls and racks of that

sticky-backed impostor called Fablon:

spots, squares, intrusive zigzags,

in colours that should

have remained strangers.



I looked up in awe as your Fablon days

started with timidity.

The letter rack met a sticky off-cut,

its new camouflage sparking pride

as deafening as its raucous red stripes

that distracted eyes

from the folds and wrinkles

and FABLON FABLON FABLON

marching shyly round the edge.



Later I looked down in doubt

as you interred the hallway floor.

Stout authentic pinewood boards,

suffocated and strangled

by a pinewood Fablon skin.

Dad, why? the question I nearly asked.

It foundered and sank forever.



The Fablon King, we called you.

Now I think - heaven's hallway floor,

did they let you? Surely not


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[tcm]

Re: Fablon - the name that sticks

Years ago, my mate and i used to go to a caff/bakery almost every day. each day i would ask for a "custard sludge" and each time one of the nice shop assistant ladies would be somewhat taken aback at the ghastly name i'd invented and say "er, do you man a vanilla slice?" . But after a few years, they didn't bother asking what we meant, cos they all knew. Eventually, we could walk into the shop and ask for a vanilla slice and the nice old ladies on the counter would say "do you mean a Custard Sludge?" and they even said the same to other customers too.

And so it is with the Fablon, and BB. Years of our asking about the fablon have progresed from him protesting about the idea at the start - to now having loads of the stuff stuck on the outside of the boat and is now even writing/quoting Fablon-related poetry.



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[burgundyben]

Ooops.

Am not the most poetic of people and feel I should own up to the fact that the Fablon peom came from Google (God bless google).

My only association with poetry is with 'poetic justic' which always seems to strike when I most deserve it...

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