A good read Arthur with funny last line, Sally J






>From: arthur seeley <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: New sub: Chimes at Midnight
>Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 18:26:17 -0000
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>                  Chimes at Midnight
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>A small village with one pub and one church,
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>side by side to serve the locals’ every need.
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>Each night  two drunks would stagger, reel and lurch
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>a wayward path amongst the ancient dead.
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>  One week it poured and never ceased to pelt
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>A fresh dug grave lay gaping to the rain.
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>The first drunk lumbered through the tombs and fell
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>and climbed but only slid back down again.
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>Tired and covered in mud, he closed his eyes.
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>Through the night the other came and down he sprawled.
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>The first awoke and watched him seek to rise,
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>but slide back down and once again he crawled,
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>watched him climb, then said, as the other slid,
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>‘You’ll not get out of here,”-  but, Cripes, he did!


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