<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=528059" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Uncle Fred and The Sand Dance</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your Uncle Fred <br>on Christmas Eve <br>at Gran's house </div><div style="margin:10px 0">when you were a kid <br>did the sand dance <br>wearing an old fashion </div><div style="margin:10px 0">man's striped nightgown <br>and a red fez <br>(he got that in Egypt </div><div style="margin:10px 0">during WW2 <br>Gran said) <br>and brown </div><div style="margin:10px 0">open toed sandals <br>and Uncle Ed <br>turned the handle </div><div style="margin:10px 0">of the windup gramophone <br>where an old <br>78rpm record </div><div style="margin:10px 0">was playing <br>and there were <br>glasses of sherry </div><div style="margin:10px 0">being consumed <br>and cigarettes being smoked <br>and you sat watching </div><div style="margin:10px 0">clapping your hands <br>and Gran would get up <br>afterwards </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and do her Can-Can <br>like she used to <br>as she young woman </div><div style="margin:10px 0">on the stage <br>and Granddad sat there <br>quiet saying nothing </div><div style="margin:10px 0">looking at <br>the people gathered <br>sipping his sherry </div><div style="margin:10px 0">watching his wife <br>lifting her legs <br>her white fuzzy hair </div><div style="margin:10px 0">going to and fro <br>as she moved <br>and you wanted </div><div style="margin:10px 0">to have some sherry <br>but your mother said <br>no you have lemonade </div><div style="margin:10px 0">little boys <br>don't have sherry <br>so you sat </div><div style="margin:10px 0">with your lemonade <br>watching Uncle Fred <br>and his dance </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and the music coming <br>from the old gramophone <br>and the smell of sherry </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and beer and cigarette smoke <br>and Uncle telling the adults <br>one of his old army jokes.</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=528059" data-title="Uncle Fred and The Sand Dance de Terry Collett" data-description="Your Uncle Fred on Christmas Eve at Gran's house when you were a kid did the sand dance wearing an old fashion man's striped nightgown and a red fez (he got that in Egypt during WW2 Gran said) and brown open toed sandals and Uncle..."></div> </div> </div>

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