I wish the word whimsical wasn't used now. Roger McGough More Quotes by Roger McGough More Quotes From Roger McGough The only problem Roger McGough haiku poetry problem Everyday I think about dying About disease, starvation, violence, terrorism, war, the end of the world. It helps keep my mind off things. Roger McGough everyday war thinking If the heart bleeds love, bare it, Roger McGough crowns heart love There's the moon trying to look romanticMoon's too old that's her troubleAren't we all? Roger McGough moon trying looks If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul Roger McGough reading father children Let me die a youngman's death not a clean and in-between- the-sheets, holy-water death. Roger McGough clean holy water Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there were other poets, you became part of a scene. Even though they were very different writers, it made it easier because you were together Roger McGough yes-you-can together thinking If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision. Roger McGough indecisive decision ifs by thus keeping one pace ahead of myself I need never catch up with the truth. Roger McGough pace needs You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals. Roger McGough broken-heart shoes promise People can put their best poems straight onto the web. Roger McGough best-poem people I could never begin a poem: 'When I am dead' In case it tempted Fate, and Fate gave way. Roger McGough fate cases way Do people who wave at trains Wave at the driver, or at the train itself? Or, do people who wave at trains Wave at the passengers? Those hurtling strangers, The unidentifiable flying faces? Roger McGough flying faces people I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems Roger McGough switching terrified computer The general at the radar screenRubbed his hands with glee,And grinning pressed the buttonAnd started world war three. Roger McGough glee war hands I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off. Roger McGough good me you people We shouldn't have got married, really. Shouldn't have got married. Too young. Not ready for it. Roger McGough really got ready young Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it. Roger McGough doing tell you poetry
