----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Cooper" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, November 28, 2003 4:35 PM
Subject: Re: New: Sedgefield


> Hi Sally,
> Not a comment on the poem (which sings loudly, clearly!) - but on what the
> poem's about!
> Got to know last night that Bushy and Blurry ordered 500 "fish, chips &
> mushy peas" from the menu (ie everyone who turned up with Bushy had lunch
> too!) but nobody paid the bill! Some people just don't live in the real
> world...
> Bob

O yes somebody paid the bill
All we British taxpayers
and not just the fish suppers
and 500 for lunch
not cooked in the back kitchen
of country pub
I'll be bound.

Isn't it strange the places this guy will go
for a free meal
County Durham one day
Baghdad by the back door another

yours
Gerald


> >From: Sally Evans <[log in to unmask]>
> >Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: New: Sedgefield
> >Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 08:07:05 +0000
> >
> >Sedgefield
> >
> >"It's not every day the world's most powerful man comes to your village"
> >- shop assistant, Sedgefield.
> >
> >On the flat Durham plain,
> >a halt on the long road to Scotland,
> >littered by coalmines, deceased,
> >and the ancient small farms
> >handed down from son to only son -
> >a village with a racecourse
> >a lunatic assylum
> >and Easter greenness growing
> >violets, primrose, oak and brambles.
> >First, Shrove Tuesday's football scramble,
> >rough as the farm lads, tough
> >as winners - as those who held on
> >to poorer properties, till the age
> >of zip and jet, email,
> >motorway, horrible bomb.
> >Ask this question of Sedgefield -
> >Who is the most powerful man?
> >
> >Sally Evans
>
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