by Jonathan Pinnock
When Salvador Dali
appeared on “What’s My Line?”
he almost fooled them all,
until – running out of time –
they asked if his moustache
was “rather well known.”
So there it was:
a lifetime of art, summed up
in an idiosyncratic choice
of facial hair.
But the truth is,
I’ll probably remember him most
for that myself.
And of course
the lobster handset.
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Jonathan Pinnock is the author of loads of odd stuff, including “Mrs Darcy versus the Aliens” (Proxima, 2011) and the short story collection “Dot Dash” (Salt, 2012)
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