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Peg,
Picture, Piece - The Square Pegs
:- Some Answer & That Hammer;
Unfit!
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Retreat
words
& music by Ed Hooke, 1987-1991, recorded July 1994
©
Ed Hooke 1991
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L A U
G H
Me being impressionable again,
but this experience came
14 years
after the one
which inspired
Clocks, Cobwebs & Chalk.
Walking alone,
discovering an oasis-like park
(flanked by"a
dusty track
concealed by hedges")
near the flat in South Croydon
that I shared with Lynne.
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I've
not been this way before
- a dusty track concealed by hedges.
Fragments
of sun peep through
and dance upon my wakening eyes.
A woman
walks her dog.
The distance shrinks their images,
receding
into trees.
A light breeze rustles leaves around me.
I have
found retreat.
Emerging
through the vale,
a wooden style conducts me through
green
pastures I never knew were here.
It's spring as if for the first
time.
For the first time I see
- a voyage of discovery.
Can't
wait till I get home
to tell you all about this wondrous world
that I have stumbled upon
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