The Barge Pole Brigade

THE BARGE POLE BRIGADE Well, it didn’t take long on my barge pole idea to click The next time I got to the supermarket all had a stick Barge poles, vaulting poles, or plain old walking sticks All poking at each other getting on each other’s wicks Until we'd arranged ourselves into some happy queue then as the doors opened, that for of us was our cue It was, almost to me so like the blind leading the blind As we went all shopping; in quite a decent orderly line Mind; don't waste time on loitering on something dear Wasting time; only gets you a painful poke in the rear Some of us broke rank; as onto another aisle we went Others who had no poles, all rushed in with bad intent Only to be poked out of the away, no cheating allowed With some very choice words spoken rather quite loud The till queue went on a bit, but; we all kept our space With the barge poles and sticks, we as knew our place In all intents and purposes; everything went quite well As staff thanked us, from what was before a living hell Indiana Shaw . . . : ) "A follow on from the poem "Keeping a Social Distance" . . .