Thanks Frank! At the point I picked up my pen it didnt seem poetic, but then
it developed through...
bw
SallyE
on 7/2/04 12:08 pm, Frank Faust at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Hi Sally.
>
> I beg to disagree that 'it is not poetic'.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Frank
>
>
>> 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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