Accidental Damage.
\nby cricketjeff on February 22, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved
\nAn accident means that I’ll never play cricket
\nFor England, to national acclaim.
\nI won’t bowl the ball that will take the last wicket,
\nTo win us the most vital game.
\nIt’s hard when you know you were robbed of the chance
\nTo fly to the stars or to lead the last dance.<\/p>\n
An accident means that I can’t be the skipper
\nWho lifts up the cup for the crowd;
\nAlthough I shall try to stay focussed and chipper,
\nI ought to be screaming out loud.
\nIt’s tough when your dreams have been shattered by fate,
\nThat crawling imposter most sane men should hate.<\/p>\n
And accident means I’m condemned to just watching,
\nWhen things on the field go astray.
\nWhen wins can’t be found and collapses need scotching
\nI wish it were my turn to play.
\nIt kills me to know things won’t go as they should
\nThe accident? Oh, it’s that I’m not much good!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Accidental Damage. by cricketjeff on February 22, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved An accident means that I’ll never play cricket For England, to national acclaim. I won’t bowl the ball that will take the last wicket, To win us the most vital game. It’s hard when you know you were robbed of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9692,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4963","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6544,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4963\/revisions\/6544"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}