Sedgefield
"It's not every day the world's most powerful man comes to your village"
- shop assistant, Sedgefield.
On the flat Durham plain,
a halt on the long road to Scotland,
littered by coalmines, deceased,
and the ancient small farms
handed down from son to only son -
a village with a racecourse
a lunatic assylum
and Easter greenness growing
violets, primrose, oak and brambles.
First, Shrove Tuesday's football scramble,
rough as the farm lads, tough
as winners - as those who held on
to poorer properties, till the age
of zip and jet, email,
motorway, horrible bomb.
Ask this question of Sedgefield -
Who is the most powerful man?
Sally Evans
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