'Oskins

Day 30 of 30. Another April full of new poems completed, but there is a sombre edge to this achievement, as it has been announced today that Bob Hoskins died yesterday. Today's poem is a small tribute to his work 

Best wishes

Mark 

‘Oskins

 
Bob ‘Oskins.
The working man’s actor.
he played the rock hard,
many a crook
unforgettably, even
sidekick to Captain Hook, Smee
in, which out of respect should now be renamed
‘Ook.


He was the Long, Good Friday,
tart with a heart’s body guard in Mona Lisa
for which he very nearly became Oscar ‘Oskins
He was Edgar J Hoover and Benito Mussolini.
It seemed to play the big bad men,
you called the big little man,
the grouchy, gravel-voiced, gruff
diamond in the rough and he shone.


And now he’s gone,

missed and mourned

always handcuffed to one role,

as he was Roger Rabbit

Jessica telling him, in that voice 

she was just drawn that way.
Goodbye ‘Oskins.

Forever (Eddie) Valiant.