Confused I And Stressed In London
...is everyone from Barking Barking mad?
Does everyone In Lambeth do the Lambeth walk?
Is Leicester Square In Leicester?
Is The Elephant And Castle a place where they hide Elephants?
Is Oxford Stre...
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Categories:
clapham, city, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Ve Day In Italy
...I remember it as if were yesterday
VE Day...well, not exactly
but, close enough for me
The actual surrender of Italy
May 2, 1945....but the damn Americans
Always the Americans wanted May 8
So, ...
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Categories:
clapham, america,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
This Numerical Life
...This (Numerical) Life
I am a number. I know this because you spend all evening asking me my age, as it is my birthday and we dine in lavish style. My name is forgotten; the eccentricities of my ch...
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Categories:
clapham, age, birthday, time,
Form: Prose
Cart Ruts and Mysteries
...In an old farmhouse high on the cliffs of Dingli
surrounded by archaeology and mystery
lives Mary, guiding visitors to explore and find
caves and cart ruts, deep tracks seeming mined
that criss ...
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Categories:
clapham, education, history, life, mystery,
Form: Free verse