LUMP IN BED (Translation/Interpretation) help needed

who is this rather unknown poet? maybe it would help us decipher it - if we knew what he is likely to do in bed.

Think of a person laying in bed with covers over him/her -- looks like a big lump. "Lump in the bed" is commonly used to refer to anything under the covers. One of sozlet's favorite poerms:

Upon my bed I bounce I bump
I jump and oops I feel a lump!
I pull back the covers and what do I see
It's only my teddy bear smiling at me!

So the "lump in the bed" here is a person, the one who is usually sharing the bed.

any man who has been married a long time understands the term "lump in the bed"

I think its sweet.
Sometimes, when people have been married a long time, they like that familiar lump in bed next to them, and they miss it when it is in France.

Could the particular term of endearment be improved...? Yep.

Still, it's sweet, if not particularly romantic...

Just got what the poem was about.

In this case, I think "lump in the bed" is a way to be purposely unromantic, and also indicate romantic distance. (You have to be kinda far away to perceive someone sharing a bed as a lump, and someone who stays there lumpishly prolly isn't doing the horizontal mambo.)

Well, the author's wife name is Laura: she proclaimed that poetry yesterday, if this helps. (Her husband is called something-double-u-something, as far as I remember.)


Sozlet's favourite is really very nice, Soz!

I'd read it previously.
Didn't want to spoil your fun.

Noticed it by your previous remark - thanks!

Lump in the bed
Well, this double-you person is something of a cowboy, so landing on a carrier is a different ad-venture from his usual off-the-range ventures...

This poem sound like a man who is really upset that his wife had an "adventure" with a French guy. To illustrate his point, he not only describes how it upset him, but it even upset the dog.

He obviously was so disturbed by what had happened, that he tells his wife that if she wants to do something adventurous, she should land on a carrier................or jump out of a plane.................or ride a jet ski..............or do anything but become involved with another man.

Oh. (However, all my German and English would be pleased by Phoenix' interpretation: 'Look here, Walter, that's how it should be done!' )

I think I'd have to read again from the beginning to make sense of this.

I read that foul slur somewhere too, it was in one of the papers this week...maybe for our National Poetry Day.

A spoof, to poke fun at the Pres.
Don't laugh, he is doin' his bes'
While Laura's in France
(The land of romance)
With Chirac. Lothario? Tres.

Oh Walter! I see it so differently from Phoenix! I think it is a charmingly wry and affectionate poem - which is laughing at the kiss and saying how very much he missed her!

The "lump in the bed" seems to me to be a lovely way of indicating the wonderful familiarity of the relationship - sort of very romantic while being, on the surface, most unromantic.

dlowan


Anything starting with



definately is wonderfull!

Oh - it is a spoof on Bush?

How wrong I got the tone!!!

Lump by The Presidents of the United States (pics)
Lump sat alone in a boggy marsh ,
totally emotionless except for her heart
Mud flowed up into lump's pajamas
she totally confused all the passing pihranas
She's lump , she's lump
She's in my head
She's lump , she's lump , she's lump
She might be dead
Lump lingered last in line for brains
and the one she got was sorta rotten and insane
Small things so sad that birds could land
Is lump fast asleep or rockin' out with the band ?
She's lump , she's lump
She's in my head
She's lump , she's lump , she's lump
She might be dead
Lump was limp and lonely and needed a shove
Lump slipped on a kiss and tumbled into love
She spent her twenties between the sheets
Life limped along at sub-sonic speeds
She's lump , she's lump
She's in my head
She's lump , she's lump , she's lump
She might be dead
Is this lump outta my head ?
I think so
Is this lump outta my head ?
I think so
Is this lump outta my head ?
I think so
Is this lump outta my head ?