But technology and accountancy ignore tradition.
Cycles were shortened, drums enlarged,
time and motion studies, targets and double-dyes.

Fred Taylor blew no more raspberries
at the fat woman bending on the adjacent allotment,
stopped singing "Shine on Harvest Moon";
Jan the Pole folded his last racing paper;
Bill Newcombe spat "Bastards! Bastards!"
continued to relive the War.