Affects The Poor

There is a level of obesity
Which would be difficult
To appreciate, back
In our low-calorie kitchen

Young men, old men
Young women, old women
Even middle age strollers
Are similarly afflicted

The invalid scooters
Cannot entirely be blamed
Yet they do play a part
In moving about those who are

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By The Tower

Families stroll by
Wearing caps and cardigans
Young men strut about
In tee-shirts, with towels

Summer sun
And roller coasters
Take me back to Blackpool prom
From Pleasure Beach to Talbot Road

Some things
You can only do alone
Some things
You have to do together

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Eat In, Carry Out

The Clock
3, 4 & 5 Sandbeck Arcade
Skegness

Fish, chips, mushy peas
Tea, bread with butter

‘We do not do fast food
Only good food as fast as we can’

Up the road
At the Grosvenor Hotel
My partner conducts a wedding
For someone who hasn’t yet paid

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Water Features

I constructed a rill
Beside Devonport Leat
With my life now complete
I ventured downhill

Every day another pill
To reside in defeat
My surrender so so replete
I look out over the windowsill

No more salmon with dill
Nor dancing lively to The Beat
My future then is in walking feet
I looked back, and look back still

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Second Cup - IV

It seems it’s photograph time
Is this what they call
Community policing

The Muslim chap
Slots his wife
In between the two officers

After the shoot
There are thanks all around
Who knows now

Who has a photograph of who
Except that the Colombian girl
Kept her face covered

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