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Tuesday 23 March 2021

Town Folk + Side Stage

The platform straight and true
The locomotive there to take me to
Causeways of red and white and blue

The ticker-tape
The Shangri la
A countryside stream for my weeping jar

Railway porter ought your trade to pass
Not along the lines to slaughter
Away from wind lost lass

The ticker-tape
The home come welcome
I’ve missed you so much Ma

My townfolk
My northern star
You could have been…
The darkness

That lonely room
Useless space, frustration
No more to achieve
No other voices

The musicians
The magicians
The harlequins
Still and noiseless
Covered in dust

Despair enters
From the dark side
The stage lights
Are turned low
The gods also out of sight

As stories stay to remain untold