Basic Comforts

SCENIC SUNDAY

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BASIC COMFORTS

Herewith a lesson in Architecture!

(Not good enough to be called a lecture!)

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See above a basic form

To shelter you from sun and storm.

Four legs, a roof, a strut or two

Facing a quite appealing view.

No great church with aisles and naves;

More like one-up from the caves.

Our ancestors, from way, way back,

Suddenly found they had the knack

Of taking wood and then creating

A 'house'! The joy of fabricating!

And here are we, sophisticated,

So modern and so complicated,

Still enjoying this simple shape!

Maybe so that we can escape

From fridges, mobiles and TVs

(One certainly needs walls for these!)

Sunday on the beach! What bliss

To find a shelter such as this.

Should the sun blaze in our direction,

Here we find such sweet protection.

Should a sudden shower ensue

Here is an umbrella too.

And even if the breeze gets skittish

(We can't stand it; we're not British!)

This shelter helps a little bit

So that we're not chilled by it.

We're so advanced, so mechanised

And yet we should not be surprised

If we get more pleasure from drinking tea

Down in a 'shed' beside the sea,

Than we get from all our great expansion,

Fom shed to cottage, from house to mansion!

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REVENGE!


Faster than a speeding bullet!
Little fella finds his feet!
Big boy in his sights! Go get him!
At any age revenge is sweet.

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