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Pension Day
By gedbackland
05 August 2007

Mills and Boon I thank you




Leaning frail against the wind


Tartan trolley hardly laden


With half tins of butterbeans  and small Hovis


She battles the broken flagstones


Back to lino and 50p gas


Where her young girl dreams


Tight under blue scarf


Are set free by a bedside lamp in the early hours 


With poor tale, coal and lantern jawed hero


In each Thursday’s new book

  

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Written by Phil (6836 comments posted) 4th August 2007
Liked this very much. Simple and tight, worked really well for me. A life in ten lines. 
 
By the way - whichever font you are using is ever so small. 
 
Phil.

Written by Talisker (1328 comments posted) 5th August 2007
Are you familiar with the Squeeze track "Labelled with Love" - your little piece is evocative in the same way. No small praise. 
 
Working in Tesco, of course, I encounter these people every day. The "People's Friend" readers. 
 
There is a consistent thread of sadness in the poems I have read so far. I've liked them all. 
 
Oli :)

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