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Allan Sillitoe's The loneliness of a Longdistance Runner

Born of an unmarried mother,a boy

Tastes the bitter rice of life to  heart's fill,

Snatching,raping,dacoiting in no coy,

That lead him after all to grind the mill

Of a prison cell,downright doomed,forlorn,

For the free sky above beckoned him there,

As birds flapped and flattered there fair,

In boundless freedom and joys ever long.

 

The warden studied him and discovered

That the boy,if given chance and sundered,

 Could run a Marathon to outshine all,,

For he would never run the race at all,

He would only escape from the jail's guard,

Which alone would compensate all his fall.