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Juan In Middle Age

by Vernon Scannell

The appetite which leads him to her bed
Is not unlike the lust of boys for cake
Except he knows that after he has fed
He'll suffer more than simple belly-ache.

He'll groan to think what others have to pay
As price for his obsessive need to know
That he's a champion still, though slightly grey,
And both his skill and gameness clearly show.

And after this quick non-decision bout,
As he in his dark corner gasping lies,
He'll hear derision like a distant shout
While kisses press like pennies on his eyes.


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  Translations for this Poem
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 Italian  Portuguese  Korean  Russian
 Chinese  Japanese    
 

  Poems by Vernon Scannell
  1. Ageing Schoolmaster
  2. A Case Of Murder
  3. A City Remembered
  4. Death In The Lounge Bar
  5. Incendiary
  6. Juan In Middle Age
  7. Lesson In Grammar
  8. Makers And Creatures
  9. Nettles
  10. Schoolroom On A Wet Afternoon
  11. Silver Wedding
  12. They Did Not Expect This
  13. The Men Who Wear My Clothes
  14. The Terrible Abstractions
  15. Where Shall We Go
  16. Wife Killer
 
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