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The re-enactment of a "past life". Just ONE of the stories from Paul's memoir: Stepping To The Drummer by Paul Bura
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This neighbour of mine lives at number 91, Albany Drive. This so-called poem describes this unpleasant man to a tee…but the pay-off is rather beautiful!
THANK YOU, THEO
Thank you, Theo, for making our small estate
A place of simple war where you reign supreme
Over what you consider your domain!
Thank you, Theo, for making us suffer the slings and Arrows of your rhetoric, for making us slaves
Under which you wield your whip of ownership (seemingly)
Thank you, Theo, for telling off those simple – but innocent – young boys for playing on your piece of Pavement and for being the bully that you undoubtedly are!
Thank you, Theo, for blocking up your own Kingdom
And blocking us - your subjects - OUT with your precious ‘mettle-shed’, parking your sleek black chariot where you Will - and to hell with the rest of us!
Thank you, Theo, for taking permanent charge of that
One, single, parking space between those precious ‘yellow Lines’ with your SECOND car! (Or is it your third vehicle?)
Thank you, Theo, for hiding behind your wife’s skirts
With the seeming enemy at your door whenever you
Feel ‘fear’ from your foe.
Thank you, Theo, for telling off that 4-YEAR-OLD BOY for
Playing on his little bike (the stabilizers still attached) and making him cry for playing on YOUR LAND (debateable)??
And when his protector - in the form of the boy’s father – Called on you soon after this incident, you AGAIN hid Behind your wife’s skirts telling her: ‘I’m not in!’
Ah, but, my dear Theo, you really should NOT use your
Hosepipe during the drought, THERE IS – AFTER ALL - A HOSEPIPE BAN! You naughty, naughty Boy! GOTCHA!
Photo taken 10th of May 2012! |
