
Salford 6th January 2017
In response to the daily post prompt Float
A tale of a Rubber Duck Race down the River Irwell in Salford, Lancashire.
There was pandemonium
at the rubber duck factory
as ten thousand streetwise ducks
waddled out of the city
They moved down the irwell
passing the boats
avoiding the locks
and staying afloat
Cows in the cowshed , watched somewhat bemused
and captains of small boats looked somewhat confused
as geese and their brethren all went amuck
following the trail of a little yellow duck
Led by their leaders, of United Red and City blue
passing under bridges and past an audience too
divided in a moment, by a Liverpool ferry
but meeting in middle – and still keeping merry
In the end after journey , down canal they all flocked
meeting at gateway at Mode Wheel Lock
and first one in net, out of water they rised
and…