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Aug 2016
Switch off
switch on
one more mod con'

what is life without electric curlers
vibrating pillows or clocks that glow in the dark?

A long time ago when John was switched on
a younger mod con'
here and gone in a flash,
cash was cash not a promissory note
not service charge because there's no ******' chance
where there's no ******' hope

ah
I lost the thread
computer tells me
conversation dead and to get a life
or switch off
my reply
*******

Mother told me,
'son
no blasphemy'
and here's me
cursing to all and sundry

ps, I hate Monday,
but that's not the end of it

mod con's are put upon this earth to
destroy conversations and culture,
hairdo's and weirdos and who knows
that last one may not be true

Mother told me,
'don't trust politicians or men
in pigtails'
that was a long time before Cameron
came along and he is most definitely
a 'mod con
should be in a chain gang but we
don't have them so we put him in
Number ten which is fenced in anyway.

pps I still hate Monday

switch off
John Edward Smallshaw
Written by
John Edward Smallshaw  68/Here and now
(68/Here and now)   
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   Keith Wilson and Ovi-Odiete
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