Ceasefire

~

my mother bless her heart

would have said

‘they’re both as bad 

as each other’ 

or 

‘its been going on since

that bloke writ the Bible’,

and

‘tribes always fight 

other tribes, always 

have always will,

they just have a rest

now and again before 

the next scrap’,

politics never meant much

at all to her way of life,

although if she went 

shopping for fruit and

veg at Dingy Underwood’s

shop, she would take the 

trouble never to buy an

orange stamped ‘Jaffa’,

come to think of it,

she wouldn’t buy one 

marked ‘Outspan’ either.

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© Graham R Sherwood 10/25