Evan McGalpine
Unai-requited Love: A Poem To #Arseteta
For Mikel
My daring bronze cowboy
With hair non-negotiable
Clint glint
All stare and stubble
Aesthetically intimidated
Our bandits in trouble
Gunslingers
Rodeo Croydon-bound
@ The Selhurst Saloon
Southern-folk recluse there
Glad all over
Drums barely in tune
New stamina stallions
The truest of grit
Submissive early spread-Eagles
Showed Freudian slit
Alas
A quick fix
A quick draw
And a valuable point
Broken in broncos
That don’t look disjoint
One all
But no worry
No favour to curry
They’re just wranglers
And rustlers
A paradox Palace of small time hustlers
So the Sheriff’s in jail
Leaving deputy Granit
A sizeable bounty
Will he actually man it?
Coy fouls; gold
Roy’s an owl; old
This creeping cynic side
This boner-fide point ride
Get me bloody hog-tied!
We’re hard again
Arteta and his turtleneck
I’m hard again
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