Apology accepted. I even liked the typos, look rather like the ones I
indulge in unintentionally. Are they?
bw
James
>From: Sally Evans <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: New sub: poetic justice
>Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 09:01:21 +0000
>
>Hardly a poem - more like an apology for absence
>
>Poetic justice
>
>When your garden
>shed burns down,
>huge firemen ome
>in darkness with
>their flashing vehicles
>and hose it down
>to crumbling charcoal
>smouldering and wet
>
>it is not poetic
>
>yet when you tot up
>the little damage -
>twice demoted
>storage units,
>empty flowerpots,
>thigns for the tip,
>you smile rueefully,
>and readily admit
>
>it is not tragic.
>
>and when you consider
>the inprovement to the garden
>aaaschitecture, and that
>one less ugly shed
>exists in the world
>and y our boat wasn't in it
>you almost feel like
>going out sepcially
>
>to thank the vandals
>
>but you don't because
>you don't suppose
>they guessed you weren't fussed
>for that old pushbike
>or knew in adcaance
>you didn't realise
>you liked th egarden
>better without the shed -
>
>poetic justice.
>
>Sally Evans
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