village voice 70.pub - Dersingham Parish Council
village voice 70.pub - Dersingham Parish Council
village voice 70.pub - Dersingham Parish Council
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Butt's Close or Bancroft<br />
My two ways to School<br />
'Wear your School cap properly!'<br />
Oh Mum you can be cruel<br />
I slung on my satchel<br />
And was out of the door<br />
The rain by now had stopped<br />
Or at least had ceased to pour<br />
I'll go via Bancroft<br />
I'll go through the town<br />
It's a little bit shorter<br />
I thought with a frown<br />
I didn't like School<br />
So I wasn't in a hurry<br />
But who was Duty Master?<br />
Now that really was a worry<br />
I passed the Town Hall<br />
Then all the usual shops<br />
Saw familiar faces<br />
Didn't make any stops<br />
A Flutter in the Gutter?<br />
A young boy goes to school on the 1950’s<br />
© Hugh Mullarkey March 2011<br />
19<br />
But just past the Police Station<br />
Something bright caught my eye<br />
It was lying in the gutter<br />
The glitter I had spied<br />
Was it silver paper?<br />
Or a milk-bottle top?<br />
Or maybe, just maybe......<br />
I really had to stop<br />
Is anybody watching?<br />
Will I be arrested?<br />
The temptation now was strong<br />
So strong that it suggested<br />
That whatever the risk<br />
I had to try my luck<br />
And go fishing in the gutter<br />
In the middle of the muck<br />
I might be late for School<br />
And smell a wee bit ripe<br />
Maybe I would qualify<br />
As a genuine gutter-snipe
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