<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=549740" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Dave</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tired of his long uphill battle in life<br>And tired of being nagged by his cranky old wife<br>Dave feels like a bird rejected by his flock<br>And the chip on his shoulder has grown to a block.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tired of the fellows he meet at the pub<br>Waffling on about their football club<br>The praises of their sporting heroes so many do sing<br>Sports or sports people for him doesn't do anything.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His wife Lyn and he in ideas far apart<br>All the love he had for her gone out of his heart<br>Together under the one roof they may be growing old<br>But now towards each other they seem very cold.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their only child a son Sam in his mid twenties lives and works in Japan<br>One who is successful a clever young man<br>He feels happy in his life on a distant shore<br>And they have not seen him for three years or more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On his own at the Local pub he sits and drinks his beer<br>Grown men talking of football he does not wish to hear<br>And when he goes home he must cook his own tea<br>Since he and his Mrs Lyn do not agree.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Duggan">Francis Duggan</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=549740" data-title="Dave de Francis Duggan" data-description="Tired of his long uphill battle in life And tired of being nagged by his cranky old wife Dave feels like a bird rejected by his flock And the chip on his shoulder has grown to a block. Tired of the fellows he meet at the pub Waffling on about the..."></div> </div> </div>

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