Risky Business

its a funny old world....

Risky Business

 

I hear they’re

Closing schools

Because the sky’s

Too blue

Go take a look

Be careful tho

Because that’s

Risky too

 

They are sure to

Close the stores

Soon  

Coz stuff is

Falling from

The skies

We used to call it

Rain once

But that’s

Now risky too

 

The trains will

All stop

Running

The clocks

Are turning back

Everyone

Is late for work

And all because

A single leaf 

Settled

On the tracks

 

 

Author's Note

is it just me, or have we risk assessed ourselves into a corner...

Reviews

[angel]

Without a doubt! I remember, back in the 60s, going through knee high snow to school.The city had plowed the road for the buses, but not the sidewalks. They'd be done for the walk home, but for morning, and possibly for lunch, we had to slog through.
Now, kids are out of school at the drop of a snowflake.
What a wussy, wussy world it has become.
Kids can't even bring a peanut butter sandwich to school anymore, here, anyway, lest some kid with a peanut allergy see it, presumably.
Wussy, wussy world.

[angel]

Check out this golden nugget of stupidity.
https://safetyrisk.net/this-toaster-is-hot/

[Neville]

The world has indeed become juxtaposed against a backcloth of wussy banality.....thanks for the visit angel dear friend... Neville

[angel]

I found here the ultimate idiot precaution; inside a machine washable child's shirt, sized for 3-4 years: "remove child before washing".
Imagine trying to force that kid into the washing machine!

[Neville]

crazy...........

[Chris Shaw]

So you've noticed too Neville the complete absurdity which seems to have taken over these days. It's all down to 'ealth and safety, they are the culprits. That's why conkers have been banned from school playgrounds amongst other things. I loved that game as a kid. I had a sixteener! (Do you know what that was?) And don't talk to me about trains, and the hundred of variants as to why they've been cancelled, the wrong type of snow, leaves on the line et al. It needed to be said, and you have done that with a flourish.

Chris

[Neville]

Thank you Chris, yes it is absolutely absurd... a sixteener, my word did ya roast it or pickle it in vinegar... N

[Chris Shaw]

My luvverly brother Steve, younger by a year and no longer with us, used the vinegar treatment. We had the best conkers around (lol)( Just posted 4 new ones, poems not conkers)

[Neville]

ya can't beat the old vinegar method for ardening ya conker .... x

[emmajoy]

Yes, we have.. it's a growing blot on every system created since the Industrial revolution. A single blink and - life stands still - except in study and motion surroundings where it takes ten hands to hold a pen!

A strangely empathic irony runs these words, Meter more than fine. A more than thoughtful post.

[Neville]

Thank you for weighing up these words, Neville

[emmajoy]

It's always a pleasure to delve into your words, Mr. Pettitt!