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Reading Poetry In Fairlands Valley Park.

Outline: My reaction to the council's Jobsworth from hell. One day one of these petty little people will say 'great idea... go for it...' When that day comes, hell will freeze over... I found out later he lied. We didn't need any of it.
Why: fun
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READING POETRY IN FAIRLANDS VALLEY PARK.



To orate upon this pile of bricks
this small corner of the world
our stage
causes small men to reach for even smaller reasons
and petty rules
writ loud by fools on unprinted pages
to deny it's use
cite child abuse
a lack of insurance
and checks in Police computer files
and all the while others Sunday lives
follow their own momentum
as lovers love
and ball players play with balls
small men reinterpret rules and gloat
how nobody has the right to use this facility
that we already pay for
while dogs walk past as dogs are wont to do
taking no notice apart from an occasional disdainful sniff
to make their mark
as the all pervading pong
the stench
the smell
the whiff of the Council Jobsworth from Hell
invades the use of a flat pile of bricks
this bandstand in a public park
until...
one dog sniffs our Council's brickwork
cocks it's leg
and impudently urinates over that
which I need a compliance with pettiness
and a police vetting procedure to stand upon
causing me to think that should there be right or wrong
in this matter
then my money is on the dog.
Author Explanation: I despise Jobsworth's. I despise lying Jobsworth's even more... I and a few others were supposed to be giving a poetry recital to a bus load of kids and their carers. Sat on the front of an inanimate pile of brickwork with the kids sat in front of us. Apparently our work would have to be vetted and censored first... Funny that... They don't do that for the bands who play on it.
Logicus tracticus
[Mon May 05, 2008 9:00 pm]
So Simon Speller said I wouldn't say it like that..
Yes Jobsworth, thought what with the council meetings, reports being on-line now, quick sqizz online, you can add, a bit more to this perhaps... see who the moaning minnie was that compared you to 50cents, or some other rapper...


as dogs are wont to do... seemed wrong

while dogs strut, past as is want, to do
taking no notice apart from an occasional disdainful sniff
to make their mark (cock a snoop)
as the all pervading pong..

Cant stand them me self, jobsworths....
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Philip Graham King
[Tue May 06, 2008 12:15 pm]
Hi Chris

What sort of poetry was he expedcting you to read?
The bloke sounds a total pillock to me.

Still I suppose you can call it suffering for one's art.

A good read

TTFN

Phil
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Indie
[Wed May 07, 2008 4:07 pm]
so powerfully put,

because the tone is disdainful in its dismissal- and dismissal is so much worse than hate..putting your money on the dog put it all in perspective...

and, some really good writing here...that hits the spot with the reader: like so: small men to reach for even smaller reasons; orate upon this pile of bricks; the line on momentum and then the dogs walking past: all very good- just right in expression.

well done!

indie
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maipenrai
[Wed May 07, 2008 8:36 pm]
good one Chris, they are a race apart these people and do they breed!!!!!
met one at the check in at Zurich Airport, god I swear this woman was born in the wrong country at the wrong time, I was overweight by carrying essential drugs on the way to Kosova, had letters, list of the drugs, why I was carrying them etc, I had been cleared by UK CUSTOMS and not charged for excess baggage by BA "but in Switzaland we have rules, you must obey the rules", she gave me a choice, leave the drugs with Swiss customs or pay 75 quid, I paid, still get angry at the thought of that woman.
Bernie
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but suffer this a while
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Inker
[Wed May 07, 2008 9:26 pm]
Ye Gods, that was disgraceful treatment.I hope you got his/her name. What about the people at Speaker's Corner? No one knows what's going to come out of their mouths.

I've worked in a few schools, teachers not knowing what to expect, admittedly. However, if you've got carers, or anyone responsible for the group present, then if you step out of line, it's their responsibility to collect the children and remove them from you.

I'd contact the local paper re this as well.

Good poem. Yep, my money's on the dog, too. And in the words of 'Our Logi' - fetch him, Nipper!

Bestest,
Inker
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BrianRobertNeal
[Fri May 09, 2008 8:36 am] Watto Chris
Having worked for the Socialist Soviet Republic of Camden I know where you are coming from.

At one of their parks at lunch time Parkies and local kids would play football. Next thing you know up go "No Ball Game" signs.

That park had suffered little vandalism and was popular with locals.

Today I should imagine that there are no parkies and few would dare go there it could be more than their life's-worth.

A good thought provoking piece.

Brian

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