at the other side <br />of another tent <br />and just a flap away <br />from trestle-tables <br />strawberries and teas <br /> <br />as civilized heroics <br />play out <br />albeit in a strictly minor key <br /> <br />the sacrificial goat <br />gets wind of <br />the greenest grass he'd never see <br /> <br />distant cheers <br />and the scampering of feet <br />last gasps <br />chomping at the bits <br />of every pastry treat <br />with extra cream <br /> <br />now down on his knees <br />in goat-heaven soon maybe <br />he'll see how it might have been <br />the hundred metres final <br />for the under seventeens<br /><br />Stephen Brian Brady<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/refreshments-tent-sports-day/
