Boys From Brisco Mount

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 works.

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
had led to us all
being labelled
with the same tag
and added to the consensus
of inbred ne’er-do-wells.

Factory fodder
was the destiny
of most of us
as we left the playground
for the final time,
which was a better deal
than previous generations,
whose destiny
(apart from sheep-shagging)
was to be cannon fodder.