Agnosy

Cherry

By luigi_pagano

Thu, 27 Sep 2018
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(On the 26th September a newspaper headline read: Man in hospital after cherry-picker accident)
 

Today's paper described a collision

between a bus and a cherry-picker.

It was an incident I could envision

and my heartbeat pulsated quicker.

 

A cherry picker? I cried in alarm,

was it one of ours by any chance?

I hope he hasn't come to any harm

and at my poems he'll look askance.

 

Then later on I took another look

and found it was an hydraulic crane

which for a person I had mistook

and momentarily had addled my brain.

 

I could again breathe a sigh of relief

now that I'd learned the true meaning

and yet I could not shake off my belief

that my ignorance was demeaning.

 

© Luigi Pagano 2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Certificate U
Poem
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Comments

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Amusing, but is the crane really a cherry-picker? such small things to be picked thus off a tree?! It reminded of some advert I've kept noticing while on mute that has what looks like the silhouette of a dinosaur picking a fruit (kiwi?) off a tree, but transforms showing that it is really the outline of a crane. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by luigi_pagano on

Well Rhiannon, it looks as if it is. This is how the Scottish Sun describes it:  

CRANE DRAMA One casualty rushed to hospital after cherry-picker collapses on top of bus in Glasgow’s George Square as fire crews race to scene.

Cheers, Luigi x

 

Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

Well we have at least one cherry-picker based near Glasgow so I can see your concern! Thank you for making me laugh Luigi

 

Submitted by luigi_pagano on

Hi Claudine. I am always concerned about the welfare of our cherry-pickers who make the efforts of all the cherry-seekers a worthwhile pursuit. There is nothing more satisfying than seeing the coveted fruit at the top of the page and I thank you for these.
Also, I am glad that this little ditty made you laugh as I believe that some humour lightens the gloom which seems prevalent nowadays.

Best, Luigi x

 

 

Submitted by airyfairy on

Our cherry pickers are an unruly lot...that one should collapse on the top of a bus doesn't surprise me at all wink   

Hope the poor person involved in this accident made a full recovery.

Submitted by luigi_pagano on

I believe I have only met one and she seemed well behaved and not at all unruly. wink

The casualty in that incident was reported to have received minor injuries.

Luigi x