JUST LIKE THAT
Tommy Cooper is my hero
I never quite got his humour
or his hat, but
he was charming for all that
Tommy, as a star, ascended
in my sky
when I saw a tape of his last
show, there
he was in the middle of a joke
fumbling through one of his inept
magic tricks, when he
fell down upon the stage
the exquisite cleverness of his stillness
captured me, whilst
the audience was laughing, thinking
the dive was the punch line
Good on ya Tommy
what a way to go
© Bette O’Callaghan
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