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Monday, 24 February 2020
Upbringing updated
Keighley News district office
Myrtle Place, Bingley, West Yorkshire
1959
Impatience was my driven clockspring then,
Wound tightly by my adolescent need,
I yearned for girls but, even more, I sought
A better smithy for my wordsmithing.
A disliked workplace but, if truth be known,
That modest valley town was innocent,
A yardstick for the things that were to come,
An anvil base on which to shape and bend.
But youth confinèd to a teenage cell,
Finds just the bars and, through them, discontent,
Sees vaguest vistas of a sexual sort,
Dreams stories only wisdom may create.
I took the southern road, without goodbyes,
Swearing to flush these details down the tubes,
And found a wider, more rewarding world,
Plus all the doubtful gains of adulthood.
Yet, like dull bricks that built the house I own,
That old dull Place helped build the life I’ve led,
There’s time and space and even patience now,
The fire aspires and words gain relevance
.
What of that town that I once deemed to hate,
That sleeps, unhated, four hours’ drive up north?
Do lichens grow, are folks content, roads straight
But quaint? Adornment for my mantelpiece?
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Have you been back recently to look over the old haunts? I suppose wondering is poetic, but a visit might inspire more verse. How long has it been?
ReplyDeleteMikeM: Not recently and never willingly. The round trip would take 7 hr 40 min (415 miles). But I have travelled there very recently in my imagination. In my short story, AYLI descanted, the physical persona of Jane, who plays Rosalind, was born out of a local resident. I'm sure she would welcome the resurrection I have provided; she looked like that in 1959 and it would be interesting to see which of the two of us has worn the better.
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