Bill-Poor Goldman's road no more gold! A stub!
Perhaps poem could do with a bit of editing?
Cheers P
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Subject: unmarked man.snap
unmarked man
it's been a month now.
i've erected a little cairn
of stones to surround
the uprightish grey branch stub
i propped there last week
in the closing crater
which once housed
the steel pole
which announced
Goldmans Road.
The sign was never all that flash.
North winds would push it
parallel to the bitumen.
Whacking it round
with that broken branch
from time to time,
forced a realignment.
but now, aroused
by car tyres,
then settling,
only loose stones and gravel
mill about in the area.
looking up at the road opening,
i wonder if it too will soon close over.
then i'll really have trouble
getting home.
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