<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399632" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The military police</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">One afternoon<br>just after returning from work<br>there was a knock on the front door</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and three military policemen<br>with flat orange hats, <br>and orange arm flashes</div><div style="margin:10px 0">demanded to come in<br>and wanted to search my place<br>as somebody had told them<br>that I was a friend of someone </div><div style="margin:10px 0">for whom they had an arrest warrant<br>for not turning up to camp<br>and the simpletons thought<br>that I was hiding him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Being in the citizens force, <br>I intensely disliked the military police<br>and knew that he was quite safe from them<br>and showed them the gate<br>which made them really angry, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">but they were furious<br>when I told them that I knew<br>where to find him</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and that they could go<br>to the local police station<br>where he was on duty.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399632" data-title="The military police de Gert Strydom" data-description="One afternoon just after returning from work there was a knock on the front door and three military policemen with flat orange hats, and orange arm flashes demanded to come in and wanted to search my place as somebody had told them that I was a..."></div> </div> </div>

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