[SEL] The Dying Maytag (Part 1 of 4)

[Kerry Morris]

G'Day Jack

Brilliant, keep it up

Kerry

Lithgow NSW Oz


--- Jack Watson <nadejack at optusnet.com.au> wrote:

> These are the first few stanzas of my latest epic
> poem. If you can stand 
> the first sample, I could be persuaded to drip-feed
> the remainder . . . 
> or to desist entirely, given sufficient inducement
> (Paypal, Visa or 
> American Express accepted)
> 
> Warning to any sensitive souls or lovers of fine
> poetry out there. Do
> not read on.
> 
> =====
> "Little Jim" - The Restorer's's Dying Maytag - by
> JW²
>                  (with apologies to Edward Farmer)
> 
> The workshop was a thatched one
> The outside old and mean
> Yet everything within that shed
> Was wondrous neat and clean.
> 
> The night was dark and stormy
> The wind was howling wild
> A patient owner knelt beside
> The crankcase of his "child".
> 
> A little worn out power plant
> Whose once bright paint grown dim
> He was the restorer's only child,
> He called him "Little Jim".
> 
> And oh! to see the burning tears fast running down
> his cheek
> As he offered up his prayers in thought he was
> afraid to speak.
> "Just start once more", he sobbed, "I love you
> better than my wife"
> For there was all an owner's love in that poor
> restorer's life.
> 
> With hands uplifted he kneels beside the engine's
> bed
> And prays that the night may spare his 'Tag and take
> himself instead.
> He gets his answer from the echos resounding in the
> hut
>
"Kick,zip...Kick,zip...Kick,zip......Puff......puff......puff........phut!"
> 
> 
> (to be continued)
> 
> ====
> Submitted more in sorrow than regret.(sob) - JW²
> 
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