Don't weep when you read this (IF you read this!) it was written in fun - and I wrote it about 20 years ago but just found a copy of it today.
He was only popping down to Sainsbury's to get something for dinner.
Just a five minute ride.
And he died
Swerving to avoid a child.
They say death would have been quick,
He wouldn't have felt much pain
As he hurtled through the shop window.
How often did he stop at that corner shop
For fags and fifties.
The unhurt child,
Cried tears
Of fear
And innocence bewildered
In an anguished mother's arms.
The bike, a concertina'd wreath,
Lay beneath
An articulated lorry
Carrying Corn Flakes.
(He couldn't breakfast enough).
A red
And dead
CZ.
He entered the corner shop
At 70 miles an hour
In a shower
Of glass,
Slid along the counter
And rang up the till.
He bounced off the freezer cabinet
And squashed the sliced bread.
Dead.
He ended without style
Beneath a pile
Of videos.
Nasty.
In the corner shop
They still
Keep beside the till
Two fifty pence pieces.
On his grave A bunch of dandelions
Sprout from the neck
Of a dented Red Petrol tank.
On his headstone
A fang of the frog
Is the epilogue.
Elsewhere his typewriter gathers dust,
His poems curl at the corners.
His undiscovered masterpiece
Laughs at itself.
His socks stand in the corner
And the world goes on.