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Array ( [sid] => 11080 [catid] => 1 [aid] => Mick [title] => the sewage worker & the town councillor [time] => 2003-01-23 22:30:00 [hometext] => oh, what can i say? .....tis life............ [bodytext] => A sewage worker died today.
Down the sewer like all good sewage workers do.
They put the lid on the manhole and
told his wife that he got swept away
by a tidal wave of shite.
They gave her a few hundred quid,
a nice funeral with an empty casket,
and a pension worth a pittance of his wages.
The children got bags of crisps and pats on their heads...
and they all lived happily,as they could,
ever after.

The town councillor died today.
He was best known for robbing folk
and bent construction contracts.
He was laid to rest in gold, and a perfect profile.
Everyone, who was anyone, was there.
His wife now has an entourage of twelve people,
and a mansion in the Dublin mountains
where she can be alone with all her trials.
And they all go on screwing each other and
everyone else,
ever after.
[comments] => 7 [counter] => 209 [topic] => 21 [informant] => roisin [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 17 [ratings] => 4 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => Lifepoems )

the sewage worker & the town councillor

Contributed by roisin on Thursday, 23rd January 2003 @ 10:30:00 PM in AEST
Topic: Lifepoems

A sewage worker died today.
Down the sewer like all good sewage workers do.
They put the lid on the manhole and
told his wife that he got swept away
by a tidal wave of shite.
They gave her a few hundred quid,
a nice funeral with an empty casket,
and a pension worth a pittance of his wages.
The children got bags of crisps and pats on their heads...
and they all lived happily,as they could,
ever after.

The town councillor died today.
He was best known for robbing folk
and bent construction contracts.
He was laid to rest in gold, and a perfect profile.
Everyone, who was anyone, was there.
His wife now has an entourage of twelve people,
and a mansion in the Dublin mountains
where she can be alone with all her trials.
And they all go on screwing each other and
everyone else,
ever after.

Copyright © roisin ... [ 2003-01-23 22:30:00]
(Date/Time posted on site)

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Re: the sewage worker & the town councillor (User Rating: 1 )
by Ramfire on Saturday, 25th January 2003 @ 04:26:13 PM AEST
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Life isn't fair - that's for sure.
Regards,
Ramfire

Re: the sewage worker & the town councillor (User Rating: 1 )
by Rakerman1999 on Monday, 27th January 2003 @ 12:59:07 AM AEST
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lol rosie...aint it the truth though. What an imaginative way to get your point across...Very well done! ( how'd those dreams turn out? ) ;o) Larry

Re: the sewage worker & the town councillor (User Rating: 1 )
by wordsy on Monday, 27th January 2003 @ 10:32:28 PM AEST
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This too is true. Such is life.

A really good read,
wordsy.

Re: the sewage worker & the town councillor (User Rating: 1 )
by Wrybod on Monday, 3rd February 2003 @ 12:46:26 PM AEST
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Roisin. Naaaastieeeee but pretty close to the truth. Good on yer! I've done one for the OAP's and down with the Social workers (and the Police) mind you it's not their fault its the system.
It's called "You can't do anyfink to us"

I'll carry a banner when we march.

Re: the sewage worker & the town councillor (User Rating: 1 )
by karoody on Tuesday, 11th February 2003 @ 01:18:00 AM AEST
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it's terrible but true that the general public boils down to a statistic. paychecks and titles tend to measure worth. what ever happened to character, or the fact that you were alive and you put a mark here, no matter the size?

Re: the sewage worker & the town councillor (User Rating: 1 )
by mckayla on Friday, 14th March 2003 @ 11:14:03 PM AEST
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Great write rosie!!!

mckayla

Re: the sewage worker & the town councillor (User Rating: 1 )
by krismisevski on Sunday, 21st September 2003 @ 12:59:33 AM AEST
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thus is life....if ***** had value, the poor wouldn't have *****.

-Kris

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