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Where the 'slebs'
Wear hats and
Shades.

Just need
To live my life -
Some privacy

A photo for my
Family?

Net worth,
Social capital,
Media personality,
Standing at a
Party in a 'world'
Where they have
No responsibility

Owe nobody
Nothing

Modern Air (selection)

Where angels
Touch the past
Open fields
And flatbeds rust
We still the night
Till future sends
And revel in
The murk
Of must

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Alight under
Diesel real sky
This is Britain’s
Midlands
Where taillights glide
For leisure
Complexed eyes
From the ravens
To the Herdsmen’s pie

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Cathedral sisters’
Uncertain ground
A retail prospect
From Madin’s mound
Pram, buggy
And credit
But for Chamberlain’s
Vistas found
Where history
Shows us all

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In concrete shelves
I breathe the dust
Of universal welfare
Student grants
Full employment
Bright young bearded things
By birthright
Making modern
Fast
Paper files, telco wires
Technology hands
50 miles from London

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Compare:
Then to now
Pamphlets, fax.
Welcome to the sky
Clad station
Who wants to be
A million squares

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Red brick terraces
Snot green garages
Mobile Oil –
Some things never change
Lost in eighties industry
Cold war legacy
US-UK nuclear
‘Hegemony’
And the jumpered man
In Asdas stores
Right and alone
Forever