(This poem is about a meeting recently held to consider a considerable expansion to the prison. It was written to accompany an article about the meeting which is to appear in the next edition of the local magazine. The helicopter reference alludes to a famous escape by two prisoners by helicopter a few years back)
Councillors, Public and Prison Reps flock to
consider the reason
to increase the prison
but as voting continues the Councillors adopt to
veto the plans
with unanimous hands
and so losing the vote the Prison Reps opt to
make good their escape in a helicopter.
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Author:
Michael Edwards (
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- Comment from author about the poem: The painting is a biggy - 2ft 6ins square. Annoyingly I've had to reduce the resolution considerably to get the site to accept it. This is the case with many of my paintings here on MPS and as a result much of the quality is sadly lost.
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Good write and pic M.
Miss Berles got better pixels? Can she help?!
No the pixels are in the wood.
Bravo Michael .. I woz gonna say juliet bravo but got a little confused along the way .. that painting of yours is amazing by the way ............. Neville
Thanks Neville = it'll almost certainly be overturned on appeal so all the protests and votes will be in vain.
An interesting story and a fantastic painting. The prisoners are crammed here in the city prison but there is no space to expand outwards, only upwards. There was a plan to build a new prison on a nearby small island but that is now a money making tourist resort.
Plenty of room to expand at Gartree but it means encroaching on the coutryside with no infrastructure to support the additional inmates - narrow country roads, inadequate sewers, water and electricity supplies et al. It will prove a nightmarre for adjacent villages to bring it all in.
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