The Toper Poem by Alan Bradbury

The Toper



I am a toper; I live for self-indulgence.
I fill my trencher with uttermost effulgence.
I don't like doorways, or places tight and narrow.
I haul my belly around in a wheelbarrow.

Saturday, April 25, 2015
Topic(s) of this poem: humor
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Inspired by a medieval-style woodcut of a fat man with his belly in a wheelbarrow.
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