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(Acocks Green, for those who don't know it, is a former village, and a rather urban suburb of Birmingham, not far from where Tolkien grew up, and within hearing distance of the now past car factories) the Long Man of Acocks Green a spanner in one hand and in the other: a redundancy notice a wishful penis a bacon sarnie a season ticket for Aston Villa some wilting plastic flowers a pint for her and a half for him the natural waking daily ego mirror the last soliloquy of an external angler -- David Joseph Bircumshaw ** Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/ Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.com