MAY I apologise and say
About my prank on all fools day
When I suggested just for a laugh
The Cirencester congestion charge
It seems some folk were taken in
Though a charge was to come in
A ring of steel down the Avenue
Cutting our market town in two
Two charging zones for Ciren town
Where you get charged as you drive round
The rich in their Hybrid cars go free.
While they charge ordinary folk like me.
But its a prank you can sleep well
No congestion charging hell.
No crazy and unlikely schemes
Exist except in your worst dreams.
Apart that is for the Market Place
A building site, it’s a disgrace
And cranes towering up in the sky
Enough to make Ciren lovers cry.


ALAN SEPERT
Cirencester