Friday, 21 August 2020

Changing the bucket

 

Living in my retirement now

In apartment no place to go

Takes me back to days of gardens green

Filled with bright flowers and growing beans

Fruit trees with apples crisp and red

But being a lad ealy to bed


Large kitrchen to cook and eat meals

Smell of cinnamon quite appeals

Mum wielding knife with expertise

As she rolls pastry strips with such ease

We try in turns to copy her

They're oven bound doesn't worry her


"We'll go for a short walk" she says

We're getting a visit from Les

For the nightsoil man comes every week

She needs to escape from that reek

So off we go as he arrives

Thank goodness for she'd saved our lives


We cover our noses as he did start

Oven cares for tarts

We walk to woods picking flowers

Watching squirrels, making bowers

"Time now" says Mum "To check our tart"

He's gone" meaning the nightsoil cart


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