A poor enough fellow is Simon though he owns a half acre block <br />On hill off of Cape Paterson coast road about two miles from Inverloch <br />His block has a for sale sign on it for he can't afford to build there <br />He needs every dollar he can get since he has to live on welfare. <br /> <br />His ex wife claimed their house when they split up 'twas given to her by the court <br />And she has to raise their three children she can't look to him for support <br />And he got the block by the ocean the block that he now has for sale <br />Don't ask Simon how he is feeling for he'll give you the sorriest tale. <br /> <br />Poor Simon for himself feels sorry and if you ask him how he feel <br />He will tell you how life is a bugger and has given him the rawest deal <br />And he'll complain of his ex wife Miranda and all that she has put him through <br />To him she's the World's worst person and he refers to her as the shrew. <br /> <br />But Simon he will never tell you how he beat his kids and his wife <br />And how they are better off without him and enjoy a happier life <br />Or of how he drank the most of his wages, no he won't tell you of his shame <br />And he has found himself a scapegoat Miranda his ex wife he blame. <br /> <br />Since the factory he worked in doors were closed he is in need of every cent <br />And for his one bedroom flat in Bayswater he struggles just to pay the rent <br />He bemoans his lack of good fortune and he says life to him is unfair <br />And he feels he is on the scrapheap condemned to a life on welfare. <br /> <br />If you ask Simon how his life is his bad fortune he will bewail <br />And of how his half acre block in South Gippsland he has offered for sale <br />And he will blame his ex wife Miranda for all the hard times he's been through <br />But that his problems are of his own making is one thing he won't tell you.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/simon/
