Always full of voice
Now he’s the star of the show
Pin Up Boy of choice
Arms laden with books
With chequered shirt
Maybe not chosen
Just for his looks!
Posing as if the shelving king
Which really is the funny thing
Hold more than he does on an average day
He hardly earns what the Council pay!
Possibly if that were his returns norm
Despite that still goes down a storm.
Ready to dump them
On top of the stacks
Finishing off a job
Is a skill he lacks.
Just like ‘lunch on time’
Is a crime
Or serving a customer individually
Is never fine.
He’s not capable of counter work
One by one
He has to ‘multi-task’
Until football talk’s done.
Now he’s the Pin Up Boy
He can do as he likes
Ignoring ‘strictly speaking’
Does as he likes
With no worry of
‘Out after three strikes’.
Let’s be honest
It’s rather fitting
That poster boy Rodney
Did the photo sitting
For he’s our Duty Manager
Self-appointed
Had to be Poster Boy anointed.
So even though I call him
‘Bonkers’ by name
I’m honoured to grab
His coat tails of fame
Time to scrap the branch name
Over the door
Now it’s welcome to the
Sir Rodney Bonnick Library
For evermore!
Dulwich Poet 10th January 2014
(A jokey poem, after a colleague had his picture taken to adorn leaflets and posters to promote the small branch library I work in, and we are all ribbing him, calling him ‘Poster Boy’!)
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