and sing like sailors in a storm
I'm taking your last line
I hope you don't mind
I liked it
and I saw you had finished with it
it's only borrowed
I will return it of course
in much the same condition
although I did break a bit off the front
I kept the pieces in a bag
no need to overturn the house
in a panic
no need to call the police
no need for poignant
photocopied leaflets
on lampposts
it's ok
you already put your name on it
and I'm leaving you this note
if I may be so bold as to suggest you haven't really borrowed it (terrific line and I was thinking of doing the same thing) -- yv really just put us on notice of an intention --- so, I say --- go on --- borrow it! let's see where it goes!
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DeleteActually I have borrowed it - just not in the little sliver of my life visible here - and not in a poem.
And I had to leave the note first in case he was wondering where it had gone.
And I imagined that it would be the return of it to where I found it that would appear here in a poem.
Although, despite my protestations, I don't expect it will be in quite the same condition, like my father's furniture trolley which we borrowed to move some logs and now has a flat tyre.