<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=527888" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Missed the End.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your father used to put <br>a folded white handkerchief </div><div style="margin:10px 0">in the top pocket <br>of your jacket </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and combed your hair <br>which he'd plastered </div><div style="margin:10px 0">with Brylcream first <br>and even dampened </div><div style="margin:10px 0">your eyebrows <br>to get them to lay down </div><div style="margin:10px 0">with his spittled finger <br>and took you with him </div><div style="margin:10px 0">to the movies <br>to watch cowboy </div><div style="margin:10px 0">or war films <br>or now and then </div><div style="margin:10px 0">those romantic ones <br>with kissing </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and too much talk <br>which although good </div><div style="margin:10px 0">you would avoid <br>if you could </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and he took you <br>to your granddad and gran </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and you sat there <br>bored out of your brain </div><div style="margin:10px 0">watching the goldfish <br>swim round and round </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the glass fish bowl <br>and him talking </div><div style="margin:10px 0">about this or that <br>and once you recall </div><div style="margin:10px 0">at a Friday evening treat <br>at the movies </div><div style="margin:10px 0">he'd run off into <br>the dark </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and you sat <br>watching the film </div><div style="margin:10px 0">until an usherette came <br>and said </div><div style="margin:10px 0">your daddy's had <br>a choking fit </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and he's in the foyer <br>having a rest in a chair </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and so you missed <br>the end of the film </div><div style="margin:10px 0">as she took you off <br>to see him there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Terry+Collett">Terry Collett</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=527888" data-title="Missed the End. de Terry Collett" data-description="Your father used to put a folded white handkerchief in the top pocket of your jacket and combed your hair which he'd plastered with Brylcream first and even dampened your eyebrows to get them to lay down with his spittled finger an..."></div> </div> </div>

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