Look North
               About Turn

A Work in Progress 
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Grandiose to think they’ll all be there waiting 

                                        where the stone pillar stands

Some may have traveled from far distant lands

They could be waiting there now

Standing in massed bands

                                  I’ve no obligation to go there

Before being cued off stage 

I’m playing my next part so they might take umbrage

                                             offering portage, a sort of STXIT

Where the stone pillar stands

I’m needed alive I don’t need portage

I’ve no need to hurry not eat my viands

  I’ve thrown in with brigands

My weight though negligible is nought if I’m dead

Alive I contribute my ligands

I’m going my way and not to the exit

There’s stuff to be done by our brigand band

We’re going off traveling to far distant lands

Taking this show on the road

That leads where the stone pillar stands

Dick Russell © Richard M Russell

                       2026