Yes, so many, Max. But still able to write it...
Doug
On 2012-05-02, at 2:18 AM, Max Richards wrote:
> Sit up straight, keep your elbows in.
> Stand up straight, hands by your sides
> lightly clenched. Step out
> with your left foot first
> and keep in step with the rest.
>
> Posture was drilled into us at school
> (nineteen-forties). For girls also
> there was 'deportment',
> often mentioned in reports.
> Then at high-school boys had Cadets.
>
> Cap in place, don't slouch,
> atten-shun, stand at - ease.
> 'Squad shun. By the right, quick march.
> Left wheel - step short
> on the inside. Squad, halt.
>
> Nowadays, I stroll past shop-fronts,
> hands clasped behind me
> to keep my back straight,
> as if I'm Prince Philip,
> one step behind Her Majesty.
>
> Just back from town with my wife -
> we joined a rally
> for Disability Insurance.
> She'd had a banner made
> Don't Deny Dyslexics!
>
> I held one pole, and walked tall.
> We stood about, not marching
> anywhere, at attention, at ease,
> and bringing on a back-ache.
> Others were in wheelchairs,
>
> or on crutches holding posters.
> So many disabilities -
> and these were the ones who got here.
> I hoped we'd be on tv news -
> not even mentioned in reports.
>
>
> Max Richards
>
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