> Hello Sally,
I must admit that I had somehow overlooked this piece - jumped over it in the list of posts waiting and then thought I´d already `done´ it - but I´m glad I found it in the end. I really like it very much. It´s light but with irony which gives added interest, the tone suits the subject, it´s got an original angle, the details are just right and there aren´t too many of them, the language is right....the typing is not so good ;->, but that´s really the only thing I could find to `complain´ about. Nice one.
Best wishes, Mike
> Lähettäjä: Sally Evans <[log in to unmask]>
> Päiväys: 2004/02/03 ti AM 11:01:21 GMT+02:00
> Vastaanottaja: [log in to unmask]
> Aihe: New sub: poetic justice
>
> 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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