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Saturday, November 15, 2008, 07:00
"Stone walls and iron bars
Do not a prison make"
The imprisoned poet Lovelace wrote
From gaol, about 1648.
Its sadness saw him set at large
Though Cromwell confiscated his Kent
estate
So my little canary I call sweet
Marge
Has her cage door open for liberty's sake.
She flies about the place at will
Singing songs my pet hamster finds
glorious,
But while I'm cooking my nauseous
grill
Stuffs her head under wing just to
scorn us.
In the cage her mirror and swing
can't be chewed
But to peck she has cuttle-fish bone.
So what? — giving toys instead of
food
Makes her perch on my dinner plate's
danger zone!
Ken Geach
Park Street, Ammanford.
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