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Henry's Goat's Blog Part 4

18 January 2007

He’s walking the Quantocks this fine afternoon.

He’ll come back again – but I hope not too soon:

It’s when he goes walking (he won’t take a dog)

It means I can start the next bit of my blog.

I write when he’s walking or goes for a drive –

I penned the last piece on the M25.

The rest of the time he’s just talking with friends

Or writing or something: it just never ends:

Philosophy, church, and now politics too;

He keeps us quite busy, spare moments are few;

And then, if you please, in between every session

He’s helping a friend with a book on depression.

The next time I look and I give him a nod

He’s proofreading pages of ‘Closer to God’.

Enough about him. It’s not his blog, you see.

It’s my blog, for me, so let’s talk about me.

The puppy is lovely, and so is the rabbit

(Not like a rat: if I see one I stab it!);

But puppy and rabbit don’t rhyme with a goat.

I think what I want is a good-tempered stoat.

I’ve tried, but I haven’t located one yet

D’you think I could find one by surfing the net?

I can see myself now, as ‘The Goat with a Stoat’,

But first I must find one – a stoat for a goat;

And then, when we’ve clambered aboard in my boat,

I’ll float out to sea in a boat with a stoat.

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