>>>>gt;>>t;>>>>>>>>Four years seems like a long time when you're eleven years old, but in the blink of an eye it was gone. This is all that's left.

Wednesday, 12 June 2013

The Colours of Autumn

It takes a poet to see golden brown, copper and bronze in the fallen leaves of autumn.

On a bright and breezy morning, Paul Parker, Clive Ward, John Greenland, Stanley Slaughter and I were strolling along Vicarage Road on our way to school when a leaf rustled by. Somebody stamped on it. When the next rustling leaf got the same treatment we all joined, stamping on leaves as schoolboys do. The jolly jape ended when Paul stamped on something golden brown yet far from crisp. Dog shit, no less. Soft and squishy, it spattered his and everyone else’s trousers.

Urgh!










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