An epic from a long-unforgotten family holiday -- and unlikely to appeal to the sometimes rather prim Lucy. Nevertheless .....ON THE BEACH
Surrounded by girls in bikinis
Dad lay on his back on the sand.
For more than an hour he’d been reading
Page Two of the book in his hand.
My Mum had been thanking the Lifeguard
for saving her life, so she’d said
when I’d found them engaged mouth to mouth --
though she’d not seemed the slightest bit dead.
Then Mum’s best friend, Jan, took her top off
at which, with a sort of a grunt,
Dad clasped his hands over his stomach,
turned over and lay on his front.
Mum said his behaviour was shameful
and Dad said that Mum couldn’t talk.
Then Dad laughed when Mum took her top off --
and next day we went for a walk.
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