No. No Sugar Thank You. Poem by Dónall Dempsey

Took the telegram
from the telegram boy.

He looked like an angel.

"STOP! "(stop) it said.
It was from Death.

"Ahhhhh man..! " I said.
"I haven't got time to die! "

I sent a telegram back
quick as a flash.,

" NO STOP! "(stop) .

I deleted Death
from my facebook friends.

Death sulked.
Hotfooted it to God..

"Tell himmmm! " Death boo hoo hoo'd.
God called me up.

But I ooops dropped
my mobile down the loo.

Flushed it away.

I hid my soul
behind an ormolu clock

that  hadn't told the right time
for a long time now.

I stuck it to the back
with well masticated chewing gum.

Wrigleys.

The Devil I knew
invited me to tea.

"Is it hot in here or
...is it me"

My life struggled like a fly
stuck on flypaper.

"Shall I be mother? "

"One lump or two"
the Devil inquired politely.

"No.  No sugar
thank you! "