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Monday, 11 January 2016

The very sad tale of Sammy the Snail







This is a very sad tale of the snail that read the Daily Mail 
Samuel (snail) had just got out of jail, 
He was a working class Tory
He’d been sharing a cell with a pygmy sperm whale and a striped button quail 
Conversations late into the night about the fright of immigrant snails, whales and quails

They even discussed running away to Wales and when they said running they meant the kind of movement that snails, quails and whales undertake which is nothing like running.
Even though they’d been told by prison guards and other inmates that it was full of old wives' tales
they didn’t have the nerve to hang it up on the toilet door nails.
The paper was an atomic cocktail but was sold on a sliding scale
that played on the fears of working class snails
the type that clock in and always complain,
the sort that dream of their two week holiday to Spain

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