Napowrimo 2022
DAY #19
BUBBLY AS CHAMPAGNE
UNFINISHED POEM (part two)
Something old something new something borrowed something blue (something's gone wrong)
And the wedding cake blues goes on eat it for England eat your heart out
If you ever travel to the Pearl of the Orient you'll like this
Total recall is a bit like that too but can be really boring
You see the trouble is it drags on and pulls you back into the past
Random photograph's on an online blog site and one pops up of me
Fifty years old but everybody recognises me straight away
Sitting here in the provinces two hundred miles north of Manila
Drinking Red Horse after dark in the Kubo echo's of camping out
We go everywhere all of the time always have done always will do
Torquay Newquay Weymouth Blackpool Lytham Saint Anne's (and the North Wales coast)
Later but not much The Isle of Man Jersey Brittany St Malo
Normandy and the cider farms camping out in the apple orchards
We would jump the trains down to London from Manchester Piccadilly
To watch City play at Palace Chelsea Spurs West Ham and Arsenal
Got caught a few times but in those days you could give a dodgy address
Used to go up the Kings Road and Sloane Square never bought anything though
Jean Junction denim was king tie died tee shirts matching shirt and tie sets
The swinging sixties if you said you were there you probably were not
We were only kids but we had a freedom that kids today don't have
We could go away for days weeks and months sometimes without recompense
We hitched a lift got a ride from Stockport all the way to the big smoke
Then got a bed in the partitioned off bit of the Sally Army
It was in the transport part at Elephant and Castle stank of wazz
I bought a brand new towel and after washing at the communal sinks
I turned around and the towel was gone what a welcome to London town
You don't make the same mistake twice then it was off to hear the message
The Captain spoke about Barnardo's the shoe shines and the phossy girls
We've come a long way in a hundred years he said but much more to do
After prayers we went for the bacon and egg breakfast in the big hall
We knew all the jibs in London in those days and went to Centre Point
They gave us luncheon vouchers which we cashed in for cigarettes and Coke
At Saint Martins in the fields the vicar there gave us the train fare home
The seventies merged into the eighties and came and went so quickly
We knew everybody who was anybody and nobody cared
Almost all of the time we were too drunk to know who or where we were
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