Ode to Justin

Lowestoft has the largest wind turbine in Britain, and there was a competition in the Lowestoft Journal to give it a name. They chose ‘Gulliver’.

In the Triangle pub there was an Ode to Gulliver which was pure drivel and the author even included his age, 72.

I have decided that whenever I start prefacing my age with ‘and’ it would be kinder if someone pulls the trigger.

I told Susie Hawkin about the poem. She found it amusing.

Ode to Justin

Wind turbine proud and erect

Gulliver its given name

It does not travel so

Defoe surely would be put to shame

It needs a change from what it is now known

More fitting Lowestoft

Something home grown

Justin a name of fitting renown

The biggest thing in this tiny town

As it sits spinning upon point Ness

It’s just in time to save us

From total Darkness.