No Boy Scout.
Dick Morcraft said why
don’t you come to the
boy scouts tonight in the
church hall and learn how
to tie knots with ropes and
light fires with two sticks
and how to raise a tent and
in the summer we get to go
out in the wild countryside
and sleep under the night sky
and stars and canvas and sit
round the blazing campfire
singing songs together? and
you said all right and went
along but you got into a fight
with some fat kid who tried
to push you off the ropes and
so the scoutmaster sent you
off home and Morcraft said
next day you should have and
ignored the kid and stayed but
you couldn’t then and never did.
poem by Terry Collett
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