Having It All

SATURDAY CENTUS

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asks us to use the words in blue and 106 words

HAVING IT ALL

So you think you could have had it all!

What! Just like 'Our Gracious Queen?

Her 'all' includes wealth and honour,

And performing like a well oiled machine!

She's cosseted and she's cared-for

But think of hearing all those brass bands,

Being polite to utter imbeciles,

And shaking those clammy hands!

We commoners wear no golden crowns,

And we haven't any sort of power,

But at least our lives aren't regulated

Every waking minute, and sleeping hour!

Nobody on earth 'has it all', my friend,

Not you, not them, not me.

Let us just be glad of life's plusses.

For that's how it's got to be.

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(106 words)

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A different and more recent UFO

GISBORNE 1952

Was it an omen, way back then,

A message to we mortal men?

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It happened in 1952

And people swear that it was true

That a UFO was seen on high

In the clear New Zealand sky.

It happened at Gisborne, a minor place,

And it disappeared without a trace,

But, even so, very many declare

That a UFO was certainly there.

They describe it as being a luminous blue,

With a very erratic movement too.

They even mention 'angel hair'

Which hung from the craft up in the air.

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Now that was sixty years ago!

You'd think, by now, someone would know

The reason for the visitation,

And extraterrestrial examination!

If 'they' took notes why didn't 'they' act?

A wasted journey, that's a fact.

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I often look up at the sky, you know,

With the hope of seeing a UFO,

But nary a one has come my way;

I'm unvisited to this day!

But I wish I'd been there, yes I do,

In Gisborne in 1952.

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