Cheery picture Max did you use your trowel -rose hunting??
Cheers Patrick-scrooge Manus
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Sent: 26 December 2012 00:58
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Subject: 'Symes Accident Repairs'
Symes Accident Repairs
When clients praise
the car-repair workshop-
wall fronting the street
for its many climbing roses
the panel beaters say:
Mr Syme planted all the wall -
aren't they glorious? -
as many colours
as in the paint-shop.
Mr Syme was a gardener -
before he found his life's
work - panel beater.
He's long gone - still,
panel beating and
the climbing roses thrive.
Only - when new ones are planted,
passersby at night
with trowel and bucket
have been known to thieve.
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