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The Perfect Express Hut Pizza.


Outline: Just how long are you willing to wait ? A cautionary tale.
Why: fun
Review: any
THE PERFECT EXPRESS HUT PIZZA.




We're both so bored just sitting here
watching soap's and out of beer
and why on earth's our pizza not delivered ?

We ordered it an hour ago
so there's nothing left for us to do
but wait in for our pizza to be delivered

They claim they're busy on the 'phone
meanwhile we sit here all alone
still wondering if that pizza will ever be delivered ?

Oh great... A knock upon the door
but it's my neighbour, 'Can you move your car ?'
How much longer before that pizza gets delivered ?

We've had enough... We're in the car
the supermarket's not that far
and we won't have to wait a minute more for that pizza to be delivered

The traffic's heavy but we don't care at all
then we had to swerve to avoid some fool
driving on the wrong side of the road with pizzas to be delivered

We heard a crash and then a bang
which was followed by an awful clang
looks like that pizza will never get delivered

But wait... Through the windscreen came our pizza
with bits of 'bike and bits of rider
I guess you could say that pizza finally got delivered

Then my girlfriend's stomach rumbled deep inside her
so we ate both the pizza and the rider
they were delicious... even tho' they were late being delivered

Now we're both stuffed and fit to burst
the buttons popping off our shirts... Charged with cannibalism
and the judge's sentence is about to be delivered

He said he must make the sentence fit the crime
and we must serve some prison time so we were sent down...
For the time it took that pizza to be delivered.

Author Explanation: Round my way the delivery people can't even speak English, let alone read a road sign... Still, it's one way of usually eating free...

Logicus tracticus

[Thu Jan 10, 2008 11:56 pm]

Yes...feel you could do a bit more with.. bits either side of
before that pizza gets delivered reprises..

Eg: expressed pizza, deep crust pizza, few other you may think of,

Charged with cannibalism
and the judge's sentence is about to be delivered.

not sure of the rhythm change keep wanting to see, something relating shirt/
Charged with cannibalism
heard judge's sentence as delivered.

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Philip Graham King

[Fri Jan 11, 2008 11:58 am]

Hi Chris

Not sure about the delivery of this (ha,ha) but the interesting and funny content of the poem more than excuses any perfections in this particular matter.

Your poetry reminds me of that of John Cooper Clarke, if you've heard of/like him ?(this is meant as a compliment btw!)

Cheers

PGK
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newvoice

[Fri Jan 11, 2008 5:46 pm]

sounds like most of my saturdays...
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bulldozer

[Fri Jan 11, 2008 6:52 pm]

Hi, Chris

A good poem, I liked this poem. Wink

Cheers

danny Very Happy

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scarletdancer

[Sat Jan 12, 2008 12:22 pm]

Hi chris, nothing worse than waiting for a food delivery, especially waiting beyond reason, but, cannibalism, you deserve to go down lol. A good entertaining poem. Well done. cheers, scarlet Smile
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Chris Ripple

[Tue Jan 15, 2008 1:03 am]

Thanx to everybody above for the crit's.
As for timing, delivery etc...
Slow, but steady in bored but slightly pissed off conversational tone, raising your voice when you need to and (usually) taking a half breath before delivery of each last line. Structure wise it is written as a three line talking blues (type of song popularised by Woody Guthrie and later by early Bob Dylan among others although they generally wrote five liners) which means the last line is a 'throwaway' in that
It contains the humour or sarcasm or point of the verse and because of style of genre can be virtually any length. Sometimes it is the length of line with nothing but 'waffle' in that gets a bigger laugh than a pointed barb that the audience can identify with. I wrote this to see if I could do a three line and I think I managed it, five liners are a lot easier. I'll post one up at sometime as an example.
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