That’s a tanning studio
That’s a chippy
That’s a tanning studio
That’s a hairdressers
Empty shop
Empty shop
Empty shop
That’s a smoke free Wetherspoons
That’s a closed pub
That’s a closed pub
That’s a closed pub
That’s a couple strapped
for cash
That’s a family next door
whose giro
couldn’t last
That’s a fake tan
That’s a discarded chip paper
That’s another fake tan
That’s just a street
come to the end
© David Mellor
Small shop closures are progress, says ex-Tesco boss
board it up
ReplyDeletethe poem's done
put down pen
drive in the last nail
home
the rent bill waits
a Winston in hand
not enough
not good enough
Tories again in office
paying off the rich
the poor
paying off the national debt
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A fine piece, David. A poem I have been trying to write for years made to look easy (but it isn't).
PJ
thank you Its actually about the street i live by (in the video)
ReplyDeleteIt wrote itself....
I loved this poem, David - the simplicity and tightness of the words somehow echoing the emptiness of our high streets. It paints a bleak yet honest picture.
ReplyDeletethanks and is sad of the ruin
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