Tuesday, 29 July 2025

A Table, A Tortoise and Ice-Cream.




The table stands on a deck at the back of the van. 


On the table there is a tortoise.


The table and the deck are made of wood.


The tortoise not.


Like the van, it is made of metal.


A man sits at the table staring at the tortoise.


The tortoise once contained money, hidden under the removable shell.


It was loose change.


Someone has moved the shell and the change is now lost.


The man is tired, he has driven 333 km to be here.


It took him seven hours.


He doesn’t morn the lost change, but he had been hoping to buy ice-cream.




 

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