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Mar 2017
The have-nots have not
while we have and we've got
but
what should we give them?

good advice would be good,
if
only we could
take it ourselves

However advice doesn't cut it
for the outcast so let's put it
on the back burner

take a pick and unlock
the hot shots that you are
buy a burger or a pizza
have some eats there
in the doorway
it's a great way to get into
helping others who are out in
the cold.


Streets once paved with gold
now carpeted with homeless
who are told
'no room at the inn'

well
if that's not a sin then save me
from do-gooders who'd enslave me
or drop me in a grave and cover me
you should have smothered me
at birth.

I'm accruing words of wisdom in a garden shed in Wimbledon where good advice is sneered at and the only thing that's put upon is word written here in Wimbledon

I see it through the half filled glass
half full with hope and half
with gas
it always seems to make me laugh
just before I cry.
John Edward Smallshaw
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John Edward Smallshaw  68/Here and now
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