<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=549076" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Coronation on the tele</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In 1953 the television came<br>A big brown wooden box<br>which coddled a tiny screen<br>behind the glass</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On either side a knob to twizzle<br>but my dad said If you touch<br>the screen will all explode<br>So we didn't</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We watched the tiny Queen<br>waving from her big glass coach<br>-except it wasn't really glass <br>except the windows - not the wheels</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The neighbours crowded in<br>to borrow sugar - or to see the prize -<br>sitting on our mam's armchair arms<br>refusing to go home</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And as the Queen was seen<br>they clapped and cheered as if the Queen could hear<br>and waved their little Union Flags<br>just like the crowds in London</div><div style="margin:10px 0">standing in the rain all day<br>to see the people passing by<br>The enormous Queen of Tonga and her son<br>- and boring Heads of State</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Children wet and waving flags<br>were standing on their daddies' shoulders<br>Some were clutching guardsmen's trouser legs<br>and waving from the gutter</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But we could see it all at home - and jockey with the neighbours<br>Our mam spent all the programme making tea<br>and moaning as the milk was running out<br>and missing all the Queen</div><div style="margin:10px 0">06Feb1997 CPR</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charlotte+Peters+Rock">Charlotte Peters Rock</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=549076" data-title="Coronation on the tele de Charlotte Peters Rock" data-description="In 1953 the television came A big brown wooden box which coddled a tiny screen behind the glass On either side a knob to twizzle but my dad said If you touch the screen will all explode So we didn't We watched the tiny Queen waving from her big ..."></div> </div> </div>

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