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Reader, I Parried Him

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 From the red room to boot room
Lowood youth outsider
Cold baths and winter dreams
Brocklehurst tackled Burns dropped
Then my transfer to Thornfield

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 The dream move became a nightmare
The papers weren’t legal
I didn’t even sign the contract
Left quickly on a free

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 Then finally I substituted St John
Ran home to Rochester
And on this level playing field
We met as equals
A perfect match

4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 Last year he saw
His first born signed
On Liverpool’s books.

Notes

To continue the theme of literature into football, my humble offering proffers from that seminal work Jane Eyre.

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/reader-i-parried-him/