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Along the Unhallowed way

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This old bloke pushes t'other old bloke in a wheelchair

Down a dreary Salford road, avoiding kerbs, talking

Always talking, talking of nothing, talking of everything:

What it takes and never gives back. The load.

 

With wheels of fire and halos running all amuck

These two desperados meander along past

The pound shops and the bookies and the booze 24/7ers

They know all these places very well. Too well.

 

Dave pushes Jim through the kebab litter

Outside Hope’s old A & E, past the smokers,

Through the entrance, towards the woman,

They’ve come to see. Their mum.

 

 

PS the 'dirty ol'town' is not Dublin but Salford - we can't let the Irish have all the best songs

◄ For the stoic and the silent

A withering ►

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raypool

Wed 4th Nov 2020 21:38

Movingly straightforward and delivers a body blow John.

Ray

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John Marks

Wed 4th Nov 2020 21:12

Thank you sincerely Ghazala, Cathy, Keith and Stephen. Yes Keith but folk have enormous resilience. The English working class have coped with the first industrial revolution, total war, Nazism, mass demographic change, the defeat of the miners, the chaos of politically correct identity politics, all kinds of shit. But we're still alive, and kicking.

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keith jeffries

Tue 3rd Nov 2020 22:32

This really is the coal face of humanity; those forgotten and neglected. It speaks of a broken society and the fragmentation of communities. It makes me fear for the future.

John, thank you for this
Keith

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