Cheers Bill all that very touching
P Pinching and Pawing -hoho
On 25/09/2018 22:41, Bill Wootton wrote:
> Driving behind cars, you see them clearly,
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> ranged across glossy duco on boot lids.
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> Finger marks. As if some brute tune
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> were to be wrung from mere metal.
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> Where once a centrally positioned
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> handle sucked all hands to its chrome vortex,
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> now rear closure begins flathandedly
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> from anywhere along that closing rim.
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> Once you'd be roared at for touching
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> any such fine surface, metal or glass.
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> Today digits glide for hours over phones
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> and tablets. We pinch and paw at screens,
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> knowing all the while that gropes and smudges
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> may be wiped away with a damp cloth.
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> bw
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