KIT WRIGHT

(n.1944)

"I like what vamped me / In my youth: / Tune, argument, / Colour, truth."

Sonet for Dick

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Hoping It Might be So. Poems 1974-2000

Variações sobre Ray Orbison ("Only the lonely (dum-dum-dum-dumdy-doo-wah) Know the way I feel tonight (ooh-yay-yay-yay-yeah)")

The Orbison Consolations

Only the lonely

Know the way you feel tonight?

Surely the poorly

Have some insight?

Oddly, the godly

Also might,

And slowly the lowly

Will learn to read you right.

Simply the pimply

Have some idea.

Quaintly the saintly

Have got quite near.

Quickly the sickly

Empathise

And prob'ly the knobbly

Look deep into your eyes.

Rumly, the comely

Will understand.

Shortly the portly

Will take your hand.

Early the surly

Dispraised and panned,

But lately the stately

Have joined your saraband.

Only the lonely

Know the way you feel tonight?

Singly the tingly

Conceive your plight,

But doubly the bubbly

Fly your kite...

And lastly the ghastly

Know the way you feel tonight.