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i know, i know - one!! you, you were going to st ives... ha haa...
but it doesn't say the man you met isn't going to st ives either, does it? or that his wives and their sacks with cats in were with him or anything, so mebbe two were in fact going to st ives, you and this bloke you met on the way who you were overtaking 'cause you walk real fast and he was tired, what with all those cats to feed and wives complaining about why they had to carry the mewling lot and his bootlace was coming undone from all the trudging with his weary troubles weighing on his mind so he stooped down to re-tie it and as he did he had an epiphany about his life and why he was polygamous and that he shouldn't be and then, while he was stooped thinking, he noticed a gold speck shining in the well-trod path, in the mud, shining in the sun that had just then, while he was epiphanying, come out from behind grey clouds - what a coincidence! it's a sign! - and he picked at it and noticed it was a gold coin and so happy was he when you passed by and were kind to him, asking him if everything was ok, he replied 'well yes, everything is very ok. now. and if you're off to st ives too, let us walk together there good fellow and i'll buy you a mug of mead at a tavern i know...' and so, sharing their tales the two travellers set off towards st ives, the blue returning to the sky like your eyes to this page as you read it and go 'yes, that was me on my way to st ives!', when all of a sudden a truck came round the bend and wiped the two travellers out, leaving orphaned kittens and widowed women aplenty and two mangled corpses and a tavern owner deprived of a gold coin and no-one and a truck driver being interviewed by the contstabulary for reckless driving who would later be sent to gaol for a six year stretch and get raped in prison and commit suicide for he, too, was a man full of angst, not anyone at all actually getting to st ives, although presumably the later deceased truckie may have been in st ives, from whence he came.
doesn't say anything about whether you got there, does it! hrmph...
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