08-06-2011, 11:12 AM
I suppose what I hate most about
the Heslop clan (save the fact
that we're not rich) are our simple minded ways,
claw hammer like resolve, the kind of brute stupidity
only the British would call guts.
When faced with madness, suicide,
mostly wrought by my dad's wives,
our answer is to scrub the bath
and make tiny sandwiches.
Nanny P, the lady don,
with her long accrued wisdom,
passes judgement on the bitch
who dared to be depressed,
and openly insults my mum.
But she's not evil, simply dull
to the feelings of the meek,
and any outsider who dares
to infiltrate her chintz gangland.
We're working class, blue collar types
who like to say we're mannered, prim,
grim survivors who still know
how to hold a butter knife.
the Heslop clan (save the fact
that we're not rich) are our simple minded ways,
claw hammer like resolve, the kind of brute stupidity
only the British would call guts.
When faced with madness, suicide,
mostly wrought by my dad's wives,
our answer is to scrub the bath
and make tiny sandwiches.
Nanny P, the lady don,
with her long accrued wisdom,
passes judgement on the bitch
who dared to be depressed,
and openly insults my mum.
But she's not evil, simply dull
to the feelings of the meek,
and any outsider who dares
to infiltrate her chintz gangland.
We're working class, blue collar types
who like to say we're mannered, prim,
grim survivors who still know
how to hold a butter knife.
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe
