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Bella Italia

Blank pages do not worry me one bit

             For words flow easily enough

             And though the going may get tough

The verse will form and everything will fit.

Behold the poet's scintillating art.

             Between putting my order in,

             Pouring the wine and consuming

My starter, we've two verses in the cart!

But now, before the Pollo Milanese,

             Can I complete stanza three

             With equal equanimity

And ne'er a hint of verse that makes you queasy?

Of course I can, for doggerel will survive;

             Like kittens on a calendar

             Or doylies laced in lavender

Daily reminders that we're still alive!

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Bella Italia;

New menue - so much better

Than Pizza Express.

Brian Hick November 2013

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Moshe Dyan is sitting opposite me

In Pizza Express near the British Library.

It must be him -

Older than me

Bald

With an eye-patch.

I wonder what he thinks

Of bombing Iran?

Brian Hick February 2012

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Pizza Express

    I have my

    Notebook

And don't need

    The extra

     Napkin.

    How sad.

Brian Hick September 2011

When eating alone in Pizza Express Brian used the extra napkin for writing. Sally 

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Making a spectacle of herself?

The Chinese girl is

Wearing bright red spectacle frames -

With no glass in them.

Despite the noise in

Pizza Express her voice grates

Like glass in ice cream.

Brian Hick September 2011

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 Oh what joy

How can I be depressed

Cardiff Bay

And Pizza Express

Brian Hick July 09

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