Thanks Mike - sorry about the typing. Bad presentation!
bw
SallyE
on 6/2/04 5:55 am, Mike Horwood at [log in to unmask] wrote:
>> 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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