Poems by Harry Edwards

I met a man the size of my thumb
With a feathery hat and a sideways smile
And he said he was a Trinity Dublin alum
And I told him I didn’t believe him one bit

I met the thumb-sized man twice more
Once halfway between Bedford and Welwyn Garden City
And he told me he’d attended Queen Mary’s Belfast
And I told him that’s not what he told me before

I met a man about one inch tall
Who consistently fibbed about his tertiary education
And when I met him at the Uni of Limerick ball
He said he’d never met a giant man like me in his life