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simon
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0 posted 2008-01-22 06:09 AM


Green & crisp & crunchy to hold
In a small & sweaty palm.
You could layer them up in layers
Or roll them into rolls.
You could pretend to be a player
In some seedy gambling hole.
If in the late seventies
You were a kid
Of say 5 or 6 or 7
And you had a few pound notes in your hand,
You felt like a man.
You felt like adulthood had finally began.

And Grandad never missed a chance
To offer up a pound note
For me & my sister to share
He'd wave it in our faces
Then he'd tear it in half
Then he'd laugh
'But Grandad!' we'd cry
'There's nothing funny about money!'

Mum would get the Sellotape from the kitchen drawer.

© Copyright 2008 Simon parr - All Rights Reserved
Margherita
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1 posted 2008-01-22 07:44 AM


I enjoyed this, there was quite a lesson in your Grandpa's attitude!

love
Margherita

LindsayP
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2 posted 2008-01-22 08:58 PM



Good old Mum, how would we do without them,

I enjoyed your poem, Take care Simon.

Lindsay

Magnus
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3 posted 2008-01-22 09:45 PM


I doubt I know a kid who has not had to tape
a bill back together......  Good write,
thanx.

Sunshine
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4 posted 2008-01-22 10:00 PM


I think this poem is more than putting money
back together;
it is about why you had to work so hard,
and to be so sad to see it ripped apart...

this is a well-dug poem, and something
several nations to see more of. It is not
a material poem.

Well done, Simon!


simon
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5 posted 2008-01-24 11:12 AM


Margherita: Thanx for your comment, your continuing support means so much to me as I'm sure it does everyone.

LindsayP: My sentiment entirely. Thank you.

Magnus: I certainly had to (& still have to)
stick a few back together only as I get older the notes are bigger & (only slightly) more valuable so from that point of view, nothing really changes. Thanx

Sunshine: What an interesting reading, certainly more interesting than mine, it just proves that these things that we write are purely the property of the reader once they are exposed to the reader & thanx for reminding me of that.

Just wanted to (belatedly) thank everyone who not only read but commented on the writing, it means so much to me.


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