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The Window

Alex Saynor

Tuesday, October 25th, 2022

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 I knew it would happen; we missed the window.
Our boat didn’t come in and nor did we swim to it.

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 Our chairman had a month at Cowes Week.
The vice-president got trapped in industrial brioche,
was stuck in Lidl; there was no way out for him.

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 Our secretary boarded the circling ghost bus
on the Norwich inner ring road;

4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 all the finance team were eating Chinese above the NCP
when the chief scout called about talent on Mersea

5 Leave a comment on verse 5 0 though he didn’t get the Essex tides right or the wifi,
losing signal. There was no device, no f.a.q. simile,

6 Leave a comment on verse 6 0 meta-semaphore or end to end encrypted
group scuffle to discuss the lad’s qualities.

7 Leave a comment on verse 7 0 I knew it would happen; we missed the window.
Is there anything wrong with mid table?
What’s the point of an academy?

8 Leave a comment on verse 8 0 Perhaps we could drop into the Isthmian League.
What’s the problem with Wingate & Finchley,
Brightlingsea Regent, Bowers & Pitsea?

9 Leave a comment on verse 9 0 I knew it would happen; our boat didn’t come in
and a funny rip made the nearshore unwelcoming.

10 Leave a comment on verse 10 0 We missed the time; we missed our moment.
Though some skies are clear, ours clouded over.

11 Leave a comment on verse 11 0 So ‘we are where we are’ and we are
without plans – now the NCP buffet
and the window closed down.

Notes

Missing the transfer window & being left with future plans to get back where you were

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/the-window/