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Winter has come to the town.
The growth of the grass is stunted,
The song of the bird muted.
The long evenings draw in,
An old acquaintance look..
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Shades of pink, tint the sky
As the day collapses.
And the oven like heat
That the day has been producing,
Continues to run
With the gas full o..
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I can recall a time
A time that looking back on
Was a period of violence,
Aggression and fear
A time that lingers in my past
Like an old senil..
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I peer long at the constellations
And the Great Bear stares back
From the dense opaque darkness
Commonly known as the night.
Each star within ..
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I asked her
For her phone number,
And amid the smoky air
And the drunken rambling punters,
She took a pen
And wrote it down
On the back of a b..
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I live in a block.
A mammoth concrete block.
A gigantic mass of concrete, girders,
Mortar and hate.
I can hear the neighbours above.
I can he..
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April, it’s snowing.
Not just a minor freak but,
A blast of a storm.
Flakes as big as asteroids
Cover the memory
Of Jesus and his Easter ..
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The police shot Neville
Shot him in the head.
A quick pull of the trigger
And Neville was dead.
One of my closest friends at school
Was shot ..
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The iron wooden bench,
Facing the decrepit bookmakers
And smelly newsagents,
Sits solitary on the estate’s square.
It is strewn with graff..
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