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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=577218" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Marriage Breakers Tent</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Marriage Breakers Tent</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Cuppa tea’, me mate said to me<br>‘Sure’, said I with a smile<br>‘Then I’ll be putting the kettle on<br>It will only take a wee while.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We sat there in the twilight<br>Chattin’ as the sun set low<br>Sippin’ on our cups o’ tea<br>And watchin’ the campfire glow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When – BANG – I fairly jumped<br>Flamin’ well caught me on the hop - <br>A rusty old truck had backfired<br>And came to a sudden stop.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This old bloke and his wife climbed out<br>And started to unpack their load<br>Cursin’ as they threw their stuff<br>Right across the road.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then out they come with the canvas<br>Old and ripped and spent<br>Me mate said, will you not be lookin’ at that<br>It’s a marriage breakers tent.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was enormous – humungus<br>It was coloured green and brown<br>And tryin’ to erect this type of tent<br>Could, well, perhaps bring a marriage down.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘You’ve got it round the wrong way<br>You’ve got it inside out<br>That’s not the door it’s the window’<br>The wife began to shout.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Leave me alone, who’s doin’ this<br>Get out of me flamin’ hair<br>Go and blow the mattress up<br>And get rid of all that air.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The night came down and the moon went up<br>But the tent was far from done<br>‘Bet you a fiver’, me mate grinned at me<br>‘That it’s not up before the sun’.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And he could have been right, I surmised<br>As they kept up the hullabaloo<br>‘Don’t tie that flamin’ rope down there<br>I’ll trip over it when I get up to go to the loo.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On and on and on they went<br>Til finally – ‘That’ll do – it’s good enough<br>I’ll fix the rest tomorrow<br>But now I’m really stuffed’.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow – always tomorrow<br>Why can’t you get things right<br>Why, you said yourself this morning<br>We’re only camping over night.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Another cuppa’, said me mate<br>And I knew just what he meant<br>When he said, ‘will you be not looking at that<br>It’s a marriage breakers tent.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bill Clohesy 2007 - Inspired by Matt at Lake School Koroit - 2007</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Bill+Clohesy">Bill Clohesy</a><div class=q>
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‘Cuppa tea’, me mate said to me
‘Sure’, said I with a smile
‘Then I’ll be putting the kettle on
It will only take a wee while.’

We sat there in the twilight
Chattin’ as the sun set low
Sippin’ on our ..."></div>
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