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Windows
close to midnighttwenty two degreesroof openwe roll down the windowsroll down the stripcruise control ontwenty mphcan’t find the musicshuffling through the dockwarehouses, flood lights, cctvcobbled streets, Trafalgar Squaredepeche modean abandoned town film seta lone riotous pub on the quaywe roll onlaughingnot street racing from the lightswe’re up to sixty, pluswe head West by North-westsea-salt thickening →
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June
in Englandexam halls fullbiros scribblinghumidity and heatsomeone decreed the tie must be wornthey will hear nothing of the larkcatch not the cuckoo callingcannot simmer in the slow burn to Solsticethe ticking clockninety minutes of mathematicsa pair of blackbirds flush out the jayheron stalking by the weirdeep dwellers snapping at surface midgesreeds revelling with rainbow trouttwo →