Where do you wait, Mr Postlethwaite?
As you shake the dust from this world away.
Are you striding the gallant boards
and enthralling the saintly hoardes?
Are you drinking with Burton?
Have you still got your shirt on?
And do wings stick out from your clothes?
@Steven Francis poems 2011
In Memory of Pete Postlethwaite OBE
Slip the noose of dying and madness for a time and share some observations with Welsh poet Steven Francis in this, his 5th collection of poetry.
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