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Size Matters - An Original Poem By Lloyd Jones

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By: Ceri Shaw
Posted in: Poetry

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Size matters

For instance we can't imagine what it's like

To be Russian, we'll never know

What it's like to live in a country

With an unassailable language

And a monumental culture spreading

Across nine time zones,

So much space it drives men mad.

We've just the one field in Wales,

Small and green, with a copse of myths

And a boggy bit in the middle;

An apple tree and a pig,

A church and twelve chapels, also

A hut which is home to three anchorites,

Two of them devising the country's history

Always a little faster than the third can read it;

And there's always a gang

Drilling for something by the gate,

Forever a promise of gold or maybe

Yet more mud.

By Lloyd Jones