Whose Mad Scheme?
Whose mad scheme
was this? Right on
Christmas time, to
hire a skip and make
a clean sweep
of clearing trees,
privet in the main,
which is a weed here;
and climbers
and wandering jew
and jasmine gone crazy
and which for so long had
had control of big
areas of the yard.
This big blue monster –
nine cubic metre capacity
sits down the driveway,
half full already and with
five more days before
pick up.
They say
it is going to rain heavily
on Monday all of which
will add to a chargeable weight.
Farmers, orchards
and agriculturalists may be crying
out for rain: but not me. I pray
for the fine and not too hot
weather. Whose mad scheme?
Benita H. Kape © 16.12.2017
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