how grubby and unpleasant, Arthur. I do hope you are not going to be
sedeuced away from your Shakespearean eloquence by the gabage merchants

P-P

>From: Arthur <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: New sub: Another Bloody Spring
>Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 10:55:31 -0000
>
>Another Bloody Spring.
>
>I want to walk and sing for after all it is another spring
>and that's what poets do,
>but here upon the common ground is rotting litter all around,
>and something loathsome on my shoe.
>
>Pages torn from some old catalogue,
>crushed lager cans, the offending dog,
>spike-haired swains that leer
>at breasts sudden and modest as snowdrops.
>
>A scream, an obscene shout, the children play.
>Bev's a slag and Gaz is gay
>the new graffiti sneers.
>The cruising police car does not stop.
>
>Blossoms shake in some pale cold breeze
>then twinkle down into the slimy silent streets.






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