There is a history
Which you too may be able to recollect
Of the things done in this life
Less is known, or so we presume
Of those challenges or events for which
You were turned down or chose not to attend
Yet for certain we know that on the great canvas
Your part has been infinitesimally small
Even by those most generous of observers
Of course you may say what if
If you had been successful at grammar school
If you had gone to Christ's College Cambridge
Or perhaps you would have preferred
To make it as a professional footballer
Playing for Sheffield Wednesday
That said, what about today
Eating flapjack, drinking coffee, on a bench
In Lincolnshire’s elegant straight through town
