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Executive

I am a young executive.

No cuffs than mine are cleaner;

I have a Slimline brief-case and I use the firm's Cortina.

In every roadside hostelry from here to Burgess

The maîtres d'hôtel all know me well, and let me sign the bill.

You ask me what it is I do.

Well, actually, you know,

I'm partly a liaison man, and partly P.

R.

O.

Essentially,

I integrate the current export

And basically I'm viable from ten o'clock till five.

For vital off-the-record work - that's talking transport-wise -I've a scarlet Aston-Martin - and does she go?

She flies!

Pedestrians and dogs and cats, we mark them down for slaughter.

I also own a speedboat which has never touched the water.

She's built of fibre-glass, of course.

I call her 'Mandy Jane'After a bird I used to know - No soda, please, just plain -And how did I acquire her?

Well, to tell you about

And to put you in the picture,

I must wear my other hat.

I do some mild developing.

The sort of place I

Is a quiet country market town that's rather run to seedA luncheon and a drink or two, a little savoir faire -I fix the Planning Officer, the Town Clerk and the Mayor.

And if some Preservationist attempts to interfereA 'dangerous structure' notice from the Borough

Will settle any buildings that are standing in our way -The modern style, sir, with respect, has really come to stay.

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Sir John Betjeman

Sir John Betjeman CBE (/ˈbɛtʃəmən/; 28 August 1906 – 19 May 1984) was an English poet, writer, and broadcaster. He was Poet Laureate from 1972 u…

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