An opponent's strength
offers key to their weakness
pivots and levers
© Rachel Green October 2025
July 1979
I never left the country ere a teen
with financial hardship parents we had grown
and ne'er across the borders had I been
only the breadth of England had I known.
By the summer of my sixth-form schooling years
my friend and I spent one whole week away
with Mother gone, I overcame my tears
and planned with him a Scottish holiday.
My father, in his van, started the trip
and took us to the M6 junction four
from there we stuck out thumbs and hitched a lift
and got as far as Geordie family door.
We got to Crianlarich in two days
then fell out and went our separate ways.
© Rachel Green October 2025
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