BILL

William 'Bill' Kerr

(10 June 1922 – 28 August 2014)

‘Incandescence’, by William.

Hick, hack, hock,

Rinky tinky on purple grass,

Shafts of light, hob-nail boots,

Tramping down the bamboo,

That grows upwards, downwards, sideways, 

Into the Concrete Cosmos,

Life is mauve,

I am orange,

Hick, hack, hock.

(Hancock's Half Hour - "The Poetry Society")