John Graham Jones - Writer -

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Poetry Slam

"Don't you think you're a bit... er...?"
"Old?" I inquired.
"Well I imagine it will be full of... er..."
"Young people?"
"After all, you are...er..."
My wife's pauses were becoming more and more meaningful.
"An O.A.P.?"
"Well...er..."
A pause so long now that it must have signified, I thought, all her pent-up feelings about my ageing: decrepitude, failing senses and so on. Surely too old for a Poetry Slam.
A Poetry Slam! What is a poetry slam? - you may well be asking.
Well a Poetry Slam is a get-together... a sort of competition... it's a...
Perhaps by telling you about my own experience you'll get a better idea of what a Poetry Slam is.....