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This was a friend of mine
Mick Swain 1947 - 1994
Mick was a self-taught craftsman, and a gardener, and a writer, who left many permanent markers of his time on this planet - in the form of walls, and gardens and fireplaces - but left too soon.
I'm a freelance gardener
Of slender means
I make my living
Planting rich men's beans
I pay no tax or union dues
Everyone tells me that I will lose
My pension rights when I'm sixty-five
And they're dead right, if I'm still alive
rueful poem found amongst his papers © Michael Alan Swain
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