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Array ( [sid] => 171328 [catid] => 1 [aid] => mick [title] => A poor book-maker [time] => 2012-03-15 17:55:24 [hometext] => [bodytext] => Ladies day at Aintree,
All suited and booted,
Hoping to see poor bookies,
After the punters have all looted.

I put on my first bet,
The horse is 9/1,
£10 my good sir,
And the deed is done.

It starts running the track,
Fourth, Third and now second,
But what next should so happen?
I could not have reckoned.

It jumps the last fence,
Such power such grace,
But lands like a feather,
Now in first place.

It goes past the line,
And wins by a nose,
A good start to the day?
Yea well...I suppose.

I jump up so high,
Both fists in the air,
Beer is all over my suit but do I care?

I just won £100
And in the very first race!
I doubt anything could sour my face.

I bet some more,
No longer so needy,
But easy money is attractive to the young and greedy.

My next horse comes nowhere,
The next two both fall,
I stand in the same place but not nearly as tall.

At the start of the day
I was a big money taker,
But the fact of the matter?
There's no such thing as a poor book-maker! [comments] => 1 [counter] => 62 [topic] => 7 [informant] => mattya_c [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => HumorPoetry )

A poor book-maker

Contributed by mattya_c on Thursday, 15th March 2012 @ 05:55:24 PM in AEST
Topic: HumorPoetry

Ladies day at Aintree,
All suited and booted,
Hoping to see poor bookies,
After the punters have all looted.

I put on my first bet,
The horse is 9/1,
£10 my good sir,
And the deed is done.

It starts running the track,
Fourth, Third and now second,
But what next should so happen?
I could not have reckoned.

It jumps the last fence,
Such power such grace,
But lands like a feather,
Now in first place.

It goes past the line,
And wins by a nose,
A good start to the day?
Yea well...I suppose.

I jump up so high,
Both fists in the air,
Beer is all over my suit but do I care?

I just won £100
And in the very first race!
I doubt anything could sour my face.

I bet some more,
No longer so needy,
But easy money is attractive to the young and greedy.

My next horse comes nowhere,
The next two both fall,
I stand in the same place but not nearly as tall.

At the start of the day
I was a big money taker,
But the fact of the matter?
There's no such thing as a poor book-maker!

Copyright Â© mattya_c ... [ 2012-03-15 17:55:24]
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Re: A poor book-maker (User Rating: 1 )
by northernlights on Friday, 16th March 2012 @ 11:48:16 PM AEST
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It is a wonderful thing when we can laugh at ourselves trying to beat the odds, really enjoyed reading between the lines and especially enjoyed your ability to communicate so personally your experience, poetry is largely about great communication and the smile on my face tells me that your writing has achieved that,

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