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[Jerrybaldy]

Hidden behind the cereal box,
I loved to read the Beano.
Dressed in the itchiest trousers
finding a dried up cornflake on the page,
from this edition's last outing.

I loved an unopened bottle of milk,
for the promise of cream on top.

It makes me think,
I was happy back then
and what a god awful gift,
more,
could turn out to be.

[Delta40]

Good old Beano! I was always a Whizzer and Chips gal. Fusspot and sweettooth. Pongo Snodgrass....I think life did promise to be much more then..

[hillwalker]

No, it has to be Biffo the Bear. An absolute icon of anthropomorphism. And as for 'the itchiest trousers' - I also had a pair (with short-legs even - oh the humiliation in secondary school!).

H

[Haunted]

The realism is your poetry is awesome, here the first stanza stands testimony to that.
The milk you get has a top layer of cream? What kind of cow? ohh and more of what? I feel dumb now...

[Hawkman]

Yes, Jerry, life definately seemed a lot simpler when I was a kid. Can't say I'm where I either expected, or wanted to be, when looking through the other end of time's telescope. Good observation and evocation in this poem.

Best, H