Paul Gascoinge Poetry Writing Contest
PAUL Gascoigne has been writing poetry.
So reports the Sun, as it watches Gascoigne sat in a Malta eatery writing on serviette:
“There are no rules for loving and sharing. But hearts beat faster when someone is caring. Love Gazza. Xxx.”
The message is slid across the table to a bodyguard.
Should Gascoigne ever be in need of work, he can find a job writing the messages in greeting cards.
Gascoigne has always been the subject of literary review. Professor Karl Miller, the founder of the London Review of Books, wrote during the 1990 World Cup that Paul Gascoigne was “a priapic monolith”.
Gazza “a highly-charged spectacle on the field of play: fierce and comic, formidable and vulnerable, urchin-like and waif-like, a strong head and torso with comparatively frail-looking breakable legs, strange-eyed, pink-faced, fair-haired, tense and upright, a priapic monolith in the Mediterranean sun – a marvellous equivocal sight.”
It was writing that shone.
And now Gascoigne is having a go. And he was ever the poet.
‘Ere Ego:
“And that way, I don’t blame other people. I’m the one that has to keep off the drink. I’m taking responsibility for my life on everything*.”
(Pronounced everythink.)
Haway The Day:
But if I wasn’t playing, I would drink Saturdays, then Sunday, then Monday. Then I would try and train and it was no good, then have another drink just to pass the day away.
Ends.
Inspired by Gazza? Send in your poems and we’ll try and give a prize to the best one…
Posted: 28th, February 2008 | In: Back pages, Tabloids Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
