WANTED

WANTED: Canon 5D Mark III in any legal condition.  Will exchange eternal gratitude and free Poetry.   

Please note that the Canon 6D is a suitable alternative even though it lacks a swivel rear LCD screen (which has become essential after using a smaller sensor 600D for while).  I promise that the Camera will be given a very good home and kept in a smoke free environment (I have nothing against smokers if you are a smoker and are just about to gift me a camera) and a pet free home (again, I have nothing against pets or their owners, they are all lovely, especially the Canon 5D Mark III owners who are about to upgrade to the 1DX and the Canon 6D owners who curse the lack of a rear swivel LCD and are upgrading to the 5D Mark III).  All poetry will be written in English.  Eternal gratitude shall be of the timeless variety i.e. you can bask in the knowledge that I am truly grateful as I can't afford either full frame camera myself and to be quite fair, I have been a very very good boy all year.  Well, other than quite a few bouts of anxiety and depression.  But then again, that is why I find the poetry and the photography so useful.

POUGHKEEPSIE

Here is one for my Cousins from across 'The Pond' (four feet per line with rhyming A, B, C, D, between each stanza): 


POUGHKEEPSIE 

Gliding towards that bend of death,
Unknown to those who are onboard,
The Poughkeepsie train to New York,
Gently clatters that Dark Sunday. 

Very soon four shall have no breath,
As the Metro North falls starboard,
Pushed on a bend and not a fork,
The cause of this crash who will say?

Not Donna lying there in death,
Nor Kissok Ahn shall sound the chord,
Neither James are able to talk,
Because they are no more this day.



Roger Bennett
December, 2013
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