= streetwise =
shirt sleeved grandad
three streets to the wind
returning from the front
stalls of the smoking picture house
drunk on bloky flags
and tri-fooled britannia
trips over plimsoles lying
slips on nets street-dredging
for bent old shilling navies
signs on a scurvy line
just to get away
drowns in absent glory
that's him maybe
stuffed behind this peopled
bronze as though memorials
suffice
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