Essex Poetry festival
 

Stuart Bowditch

 

Stuart Bowditch

Event
8th October
3 Essex Poets, Big Day of Poetry at Cramphorn Theatre.

 

Bio
Stuart is a prolific writer of poetry and has written over 750 poems since 1991. He co-founded Sundown in 2003 with Jamie Spracklen and still supports the event which is now run by Jo Overfield, Cherryl Scott, Ray Morgan and many others. He has performed poetry for Apples & Snakes at Battersea Arts Centre and Whitechapel Gallery, and at Vocal Schism, Tom & Will's Open Mic night and Shangri-La as well as being feature poet at Leigh Folk Festival in 2008.
His first collection 'Confessions of a Forklift Truck Driver'

 

Poem


The Magic BUNZL Van
Opus 704
19/05/05

The magic Bunzl van
don't come no more
with it's delectables
and it's delicious driver
she fixed the vending machine when it went wrong
and replenished
oh boy, did she replenish
the Lion bars
Boosts
and that look of knowing
when she spied the missing snack
from the front of those twirly dispensers
because someone had rocked the machine
and got free goodies,
it meant nothing to her
she still got paid
but she knew it was a factory where such people worked
and I hope she didn't think that when she looked at me,
I know I didn't think that when I looked at her
I thought of replenishment
Lion Bars
Boosts
and I would have rocked her
got some goodies
given her a finger of my Kit-Kat
or a bite of my Twix
but she don't come round no more
and we've got a new machine
and a new replenishment lady
who doesn't do it for me at all.