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Brian Bilston (brianbilston@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 07-Jun-2024 02:08:03 JST Brian Bilston

Here’s a poem in commemoration of the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
It’s called ‘Queueing for an Ice Cream’.
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1. Queueing for an Ice Cream although he didn’t smoke, grandad never went anywhere without the old tobacco tin in his pocket one day me and my brother asked him what he kept in it some sand, grandad said why do you keep some sand in a tobacco tin, we asked where else would I keep it, he said but why keep sand at all, we asked it’s special sand, grandad said, it’s come all the way from France we peered into his tin and stared for a while French sand didn’t look very special, it looked like ordinary sand to us why’s it so special, we asked each grain represents an old friend of mine, he said grandad must have had a lot of friends, we thought did you go to the beach with them when you were a boy, we asked yes, something like that, grandad said, snapping the lid shut, asking the man for three 99s, two with red sauce Brian Bilston
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