Long Soho Poems

A nice cruise from New York, I thought

From down by Pier two-one

I thought I'd head to England

For a good old spot of fun

An Ocean trip, some nice fresh air

Eleven days at sea

I thought this would...

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I
The beggar outside the supermarket
You swore was picked up later
In a flashy car
Sat there in the sun for 8 hours
While you pissed & moaned
All the way home
To your bookless
Mausoleum 
With a chlorinated pool
Where one day...

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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 Street in Oxford?
And Paddington a bear?
Highgate...

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It was a lovely morning and we - that is Marge and me 
decided the kids deserved a treat, so off we went. 
We live in Barking, so we didn't have far to go. 
We...

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Anna left early from Soho
But still she got caught in the storm
Due at 5:30, it’s quarter to ten
She should never have driven alone

Maybe she’s parked at a rest stop
Or maybe some roadside motel
Or maybe we...

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It is crowded standing room only.Door slides shut.
I am not able to get very far from it as I
grab the nearest pole. A young man
who has a grotesque face
stands against the door as he is...

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In a squat way at the back of high street
Lived a blue-eyed soul, Orpheus his name.
A blues and roots minstrel of rock and beat,
He was a living legend, with fame aflame.

Eurydice was his radiant star.
They...

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She slipped into the single’s club, 
where an assortment 
of horny guys and lonely hearts had assembled. 
Some were there hoping to find that "special" someone 
and some had come to chase away the blues,
...

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New York, New York, the road in the fork  
   of the events, the places and folks who've buttered the pork

Like Rockefeller, Moynihan and Andrew Cuomo
   Frank Sinatra, Louie Armstrong,...

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Oh what a predicament as we sped through the night,
A whole train stretched behind us without a single light,
And through the thin walls we could plainly hear
The threats being shouted from both front and rear.
The...

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You always chew tobacco,
You make love with Armando,
You were in love with Roberto,
You do hum the old echo,
You eavesdrop to listen songs in Latino,
You enchant young boys at ‘Soho.’

You mirror my face on your eyeballs,
You...

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Pinhead Lizard
Ever since he was a young boy
He played with balls of fire
From church halls to Soho brothels
He must have had them all
Aint seen nothing like this pinhead
In any amusement hall

That deaf, dumb and dumber...

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Poetry, a patsy mourner here, would you be the churn?
Tamanna Ferdous

Poetry, a patsy mourner here, would you be the churn?
Tamanna Ferdous

I cared for the beauty spot , her left trickle salt takes oath there in...

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Bleecker Street, a name associated with New York City in the section of Soho
But makes Bleecker Street many don’t know
Just what made Bleecker Street unique?
It’s straight out history is what makes the street complete
It was...

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A respectable girl was she; or so she appeared to be 
Living alone in her dear little cottage at number seventy three

Each day she left home bright and early, as she walked to the railway...

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Rooms 
            by Odin Roark

How prescient that first room
The one where under the bed
Proved private the light
Where flashlight and toy soldier
Became all that was...

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dramatic verse

Instead of drinking coffee in the cafés of Berlin,
two years have passed; we find our Fraulein has moved once again -
Fraulein Wexler is now employed at London’s Coffee Sense.
While in Berlin she’d met a...

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I kept telling my sister, please find a guitar-loving man if you can.
She thought it was hilarious, and was not a big fan.
She found a man in SoHo and fell madly in love.
Thought he had...

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Sidewalks are full of people, yet no eyes do mine meet;
Taxis, by the thousands, litter the city street;
The sun is blocked out by high-rises with business men in suits;
I am a lost and lonely cowboy,...

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London was a lady I met many years ago,
Yellow haze and memories and the grimy, smoky snow,
London was a lady with an icy English smile;
‘Asked her, could I stay with her?  She said “For...

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Motorbike 
My motorbike has been on the terrace during the winter
 I cleaned it and tried to start it, alas, the battery was
flat so I tried to kick start it but gave up got to...

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London’s districts

Cricklewood, Greenford, and Edgware are nice districts of London; I lived there
Amazing moments, times, and emotions all of them. Wembley is my residence
Lovely nights, rainbow times, Wembley, and other districts gave me a great...

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At night I feel i’m riding solo
My dreams are with my lover and residing in Soho
My reality is living with the unheard voices and a mind as cold as snow
I’m feeling as if life has...

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Hey let´s form a band
You can be red Rodney
I´ll be elvin jones
Let´s meet in soho
Let´s go steal books
From foyles
Like in the old days
Let´s run until we can´t
& laugh until we faint
It´s all we have now
Punch...

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The richness of life, its most intimate associations
    are shared with a partner
  as the smiles shine through and the laughter breaks out
    yes, the Grand Canyon may...

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