Aquatic symphony Thankfully, not always, but today,

Things are very grey and very wet.

This wearisome weather, playing its part fully,

Incessant rain, pouring still, on this

Already, well-washed crescent and square.

Nothing under this bleak, black and broken hearted sky

Has escaped, a truly thorough soaking,

Gulping greedily, grids with gullies, gurgle.

As they drink their fill from this teeming torrent.

Rushing, gushing, continually flushing

The drains of the Borough, better by far

Than any would be gullypot dredger.

"Good day for the ducks", said one wet wit.

"And not too bad, for the umbrella seller Joe's"

Said in quick reply. John R Mather, Castle Street, Bolton

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