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Snow Joke
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Simon Armitage
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Heard the one about the guy from Heaton Mersey? Wife at home, lover in Hyde, mistress in Newton-le-Willows and two pretty girls in the top grade at Werneth prep. Well, he was late and he had a good car so he snubbed the police warning-light and tried to finesse the last six miles of moorland blizzard, and the story goes he was stuck within minutes. So he sat there thinking about life and things; what the dog doеs when it catches its tail and about the snakе that ate itself to death. And he watched the windscreen filling up with snow, and it felt good, and the whisky from his hip-flask was warm and smooth. And of course, there isn’t a punchline but the ending goes something like this. They found him slumped against the steering wheel with VOLVO printed backwards in his frozen brow. And they fought in the pub over hot toddies as who was to take the most credit. Him who took the aerial to be a hawthorn twig? Him who figured out the contour of his car? Or him who said he heard the horn, moaning softly like an alarm clock under an eiderdown?
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