More Poetry From The Creek: Farewell Jack

The news of your passing came as a disconcerting

blow - we’ll struggle finding ways back to balance;

although you will no longer wear the distress - we’ll

have journeys to progress without The Jack Storer

legendary sense of humour, th’ one with which you

lighted the way using wry badinage the better with

its class temperament for repartee accomodation -

few could miss escalation of th’ quiet eruditeness

And so th’ scenery will be less our good mate Jack

but memories will remain of th’ phrase or two - and

a Novocastrian purview subtly tempered to soothe;

missing you goes without saying, but who’d speak

th’ truth of words better than you, & whom but you

was the antithesis and thesis of both satire & irony

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