Boys From Brisco Mount
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Boys from Brisco Mount were
not expected to be high achievers,
although the brightest
might attend Tech College
and aspire to be fitters
at the biscuit factory.
.
According to general opinion,
we came from a long line
of lower-class no-hopers
and were scheduled,
as a matter of course,
to keep with this tradition.
.
A legend concerning a hapless native
caught defiling a helpless ruminant
led to us all being labelled
with the same tag
and added to the consensus
of inbred ne’er-do-wells.
.
Factory grime was the destiny
of most of us as we left
the school gates for the final time,
which was a better deal
than previous generations,
whose destiny was slum housing,
trench warfare and hunger marches.
.
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