WHITE WORLD
Foot soldiers come in impatient white vans
to fix the glitches that plague us so
with buckets and bags of impatient tools
bending the pipeworks flippant with rules
of mysterious companies keeping pace
with hysterical offers to tempt the unwary
terms and conditions the all seeing eyes
encyclopaedic with whats and whys.
Playing their part we trust these men
who seem to come round as the sun is rising
with healing touches from ceilings to floors
dividing their time with statistical laws.
Their days are expanding to meet our demand
our white goods world is their command,
but beating us all is the wearing of parts
that fail without fail with their plastic hearts.
The needs of the needy will bring them round
when your plumbing has let you down,
the toilet the sink the electrical fault
that no works of faith can ever support.
raypool
Tue 19th Sep 2023 19:27
Thanks all for liking this : Rashav, John, Reggie's Ghost,Telboy,Holden and Keith.
Yes Keith. We are witnessing the draining of resources down plug holes of opportunity for the benefit of insurers. Our insurer for the defunct dishwasher replaced ours but refused to take take out the old one or fit the new, so more bills for a plumber.
There is certainly more choice of goods now Reggie, but the TV world and videos were as you know often for rental!
Blimey Mark, I had one in my bedsit in 1974 - indestructible , along with the Ascot heaters which made a tremendous boom when they lit. Excellent!
Ray