I am an accountant and had a terrible revenue audit on this day. I left the office, walked the canal and wrote this poem.
My friend Jackie Bracken was on the other side with his dog. I was facing the Tax Man. He was going into the field with his dog and stick.
O that I could walk down rusty ways
With a stick in hand and dog
Talk to neighbours about frivolous things
Fill my legs into rubber boots
An old cap and coat
Plough into a field of weather grass
Raise the Pheasant
Caution the Hawk
Sink into the abundance of an abandoned time