Knuckling down

When I was just

a soft boy child

I would take my

bag of marbles,

bought sparingly

with well earned

pocket money,

to the schoolyard

and lose them all

to boys with hard

knuckles and much

harder eyes. Was

it a lesson

for adult life?

Yes but I failed

to learn from it.


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