{"id":6097,"date":"2013-12-29T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2013-12-29T09:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=6097"},"modified":"2020-12-14T11:17:49","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T11:17:49","slug":"6097","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/6097\/","title":{"rendered":"On the fifth day of Christmas….Veronica Von Pegg and Andrew McDonnell"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Veronica Von Pegg<\/strong> is a mixed media artist, a photographer and writer, who expresses a past life through images and words. She collects second hand items, and is a firm believer in reincarnation.<\/p>\n

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Charlie Brown is Sad<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Charlie Brown needs a slap to bring him to his senses<\/p>\n

dragging his baseball mitt through the snow<\/p>\n

like a reanimated, headless rabbit on an A road<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t be doing with your black cloud Charlie Brown<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s all me, me, me with you, you, you<\/p>\n

little sad American boy with Christmas in blue<\/p>\n

Walking across my television like a headache<\/p>\n

Your pumpkin shaped head haunting all my bulbuls.<\/p>\n

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I have tinsel and paper chains to hang in the hall<\/p>\n

I have a child in thrall to Argos tat<\/p>\n

I have a fuck-off turkey to baste and bake<\/p>\n

elderly to ferry, carpets to shake and vac<\/p>\n

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This is no such thing as good grief, Charlie Brown,<\/p>\n

But a fuckety-fuck you! should bring you round.<\/p>\n

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Andrew McDonnell<\/strong> has published various poems in various places and is a director of Gatehouse Press and steering editor of Lighthouse Literary Journal<\/em>. He is working in his first collection<\/p>\n

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