Colours of Manchester by Manuela Zammit

COLOURS OF MANCHESTER. R

MANUELA ZAMMIT

COLOURS OF MANCHESTER R

Manuela Zammit

Natural History.

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Why does natural history Everywhere

Always tell the

Death story of things

Is no species destined To a happy ending?

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Gatherer Girl. R

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What would be

A good name for an

Albanian olive gatherer girl? What would it be like

To be her and work in

Those olive groves for a day?

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Think Too Deeply. R

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This is where I cook

And make tea and think

Too deeply about things before Having â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;just one moreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; biscuit And occasionally come

Hunting for a midnight snack.

Hiding from the Humans. R

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I came across this

Little man, hiding

From the humans and

I told him this is where I too sometimes come To hide.

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Dead End. R

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A dead end

An old track

Where the train No longer goes Beyond which

Nothing happens anymore.

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Hiding Something.

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I like stumbling into places That are not that obvious And are hiding

Something beautiful such as The Crown & Kettle On Oldham Road.

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Still Standing.

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Still standing, still here A century or two later

To hell with moving with The times I am not

Going anywhere, I am

Retaining my character.

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Change of Air. R

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Something else shifted

Along with my location

A change of air, a change of mind I am now seeing you From a new angle

In a different light.

LikeMinded. R

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We are two people In the same place

Performing on the same stage A like-minded decision Led us both here

That is life, a theatre.

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The First Light. R

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The whole room was

A warm bath, fast filling up With limpid orange And liquid gold The first light

Of the first day.

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S.A.P.O UGO.

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A. P.

UG O.

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Friday After Work.

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Friday after work

While I walk home

I muse about what Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m yet To become and where Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve yet to go and all

The things I want to do.

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Liquor Soda. R

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Diner

Breakfast Lunch

Dinner Liquor Soda.

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Nearly Three Weeks. R

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Yes, indeed

It’s already been

Nearly three weeks Since I left

I’ve made some friends I’m making ends meet.

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Driffield Street. R

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Driffield Street, just off

One corner of Lloyd Street

One of my bedroom windows Gives onto here, there is not

Much to see but this is where

The light comes in every morning.

Bacon Brie and Chutney. R

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All of my trips from

Oxford Road station

Start with a cappuccino And a toasted bacon

Brie and chutney panini From Java.

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Secret Garden. R

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In this place

I found and it became

For me, a secret garden A hive

A haven

A home.

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Vivienne Westwood.

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On the 21st October

Excited, I went to her talk To see her in person and

Even got my own copy of The Diaries of

Vivienne Westwood.

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On the Sixth Day.

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...AND ON

THE SIXTH DAY, GOD CREATED

MANchester.

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Girls on Holiday.

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We walked and wandered

The streets of Manchester Two girls on holiday and We said to each other,

â&#x20AC;&#x153;This city is beautiful, we are

coming again for sure sometime.â&#x20AC;?

Beads Bits and Bobs. R

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So many beads, bits And bobs in this

Quirky shop in Affleckâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cute tiny things

Ribbons, strings

A makerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s paradise.

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China Town. R

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The golds, the reds

The browns, the greens The smells and scents

People out on saturday Night on the streets Of China Town.

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A Small Territory. R

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A small territory, big enough For one small person

And a mouse (not sure about its size) A place where all my thoughts can Unfold and stretch out alongside

My tired legs at the end of a long day.

The Northern Quarter. R

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The Northern Quarter

The place to be seen out Engaging in drinks and

Dance and conversation

With all of Manchesterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hippest people.

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In the Gallery.

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How lovely that I can see in

The gallery this form

Of art made out of light And bright colours The warmth of it.

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The Reds Go Marching. R

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Glory glory Man United Glory glory Man United Glory glory Man United

As the reds go marching on on on!â&#x20AC;? Filled my mind and would not Leave for the rest of that day.

Chair and A Stool. R

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One large bed, two carpets One chest of drawers

A table, a bedside table A chair and a stool

The contents of my

Room when I first arrived.

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Stone-Cold Beauty.

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Still, arrested Stone-cold Beauty

Carved out of marble

Fathomed in someoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Wildest dream.

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Coming Back. R

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When are you coming back? Are you coming back at all? Leaving opened up this Question

If or when?

(When) Do we see you again?

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Really Comes Alive. R

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By day the city

Thrives but by night

Is when it really comes Alive and I liked

The idea of being Part of that life.

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Former Cottonopolis. R

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The canals

Such a defining

Characteristic of this

Former Cottonopolis The gushing blood

Of a pulsating global city.

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Look Right Look Left. R

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Look both ways Look right Look left

Look right again

But Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be fine, back home

We drive on the same side.

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Under Construction.

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Semi-circular arches Victorian design

Red brick walls of buildings

Railways, canals, warehouses

Permanently under construction This is Manchester.

Miles Davis.

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Taking a walk through Platt Fields Park

The sun is out, still a Few hours until dark Miles Davis playing

Autumn Leaves in my ears.

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Visit to MOSI.

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It takes one

Visit to MOSI

To find out that

Pink and purple are

The brand colours of science Around here.

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Rogue Artists Studios.

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This direction to

Rogue Artists Studios Walk this way to

Find us one last time

Before weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re gone someplace Else, where, we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know.

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Somehow Kitsch. R

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Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s this horrible pink Door on my street

Up from my house

It looks so bad that It looks beautiful

Somehow kitsch.

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Day and Night. R

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Juicy Lucy parties Day and night

She parties all the time

Especially on wednesdays Between 11pm and 3am At Joshua Brooks.

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Around 4:45pm.

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It was December 11th

Around 4:45pm and the

Birthday of someone special We were in quite a hurry

But the sky started burning up

And I had to stop and see it flush.

GalleryGoing.

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From now on

Gallery-going and

Exhibition openings and

Artists talks and the lot all

Count as studying, welcome to MFA Contemporary Curating.

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Together in This Picture.

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I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know

I just liked the way how

The colours get along so

Well together in this picture The wall, the floor It goes.

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Street Art.

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Street art in Manchester

Is a little bit everywhere On walls and doors and The sides of buildings

In a way itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something That defines the city.

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Church Goer.

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I am a different kind of Church goer than what

I used to be, no longer the lost Lamb finding her way home

I go as a tourist outsider who is

Just curious to see how it looks inside.

To My New Home.

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Coming from and Going to

This is the passageway I

Have to go through, I think of Coming from home To my new home.

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November 2015. R

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On the way to

Salford Quays, sometime in November 2015

Clear sky, the clouds were High, and this lovely Stretch of green.

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43 to Piccadilly. R

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I could have hopped on The 43 to Piccadilly

Gardens but I did not want

To sit and watch from behind A window and only discover The city in that way.

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Dreaming of Coming Back. R

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Capturing sights From the city to

Take back home To look at when Dreaming of

Coming back alone.

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Moving Up North. R

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Everyone and everything Is moving up north Even the BBC Located in The heart

Of Media City.

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Brand Central.

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Trafford Centre

A shopperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mecca

Capital of consumerism

Headquarters of mass consumption Brand central

Minotaurâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s labyrinth for the broke.

Waging War.

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The most brilliant of blues Waging war on

The most raging of reds

Clashing, crashing, coiling

Around each otherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s necks, suddenly

Calmness restored by a golden offset.

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His House. R

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They say that

God is in the details

And there is plenty of detail Here in this work done for His house, maybe this is Where He can be found.

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Twenty to Four. R

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Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s twenty to four in

Albert Square, the air is crisp

The place set up for Christmas time Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s food and drink and A little bit of everything

That you might think of.

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Breakfast at Gorilla. R

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I found the

Sunny side

Of a rainy day In a plate

While having

Breakfast at Gorilla.

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Perfectly Cool. R

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This is a place where

The old and the new are Perfectly cool living

Next to each other although Sometimes they do have

Fights on who looks better.

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Water that Freezes.

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Nature making art, looks

Symmetrical but not quite Trapped autumn leaves in The water that freezes

Overnight, patterns in a puddle

Made of diamonds and sapphires.

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Here Now. R

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What matters is that I’m here now I’m here now I’m here Here

Now.

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Come Back. R

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See, I was here before And then left

But before that

Promised myself

I would come back

So perhaps, I never really left.

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Salty Breeze. R

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Blown glass bottles in All the colours of the

Ocean and the sand, in which I can almost hear a salty Breeze brushing over A secluded beach.

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We Could All Gather. R

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The piece on the wall reads: IDEALLY HERE

A BEAUTIFUL LARGE FIREPLACE WHERE WE COULD ALL GATHER.

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Shouting to Be Seen. R

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I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know

What I saw that

Made me like this picture so But it might have been

The really bright green that

Stands there shouting to be seen.

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Whitworth Park. R

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On my way to town

I always walk through Whitworth Park

And look at the grass

The trees, the squirrels, although At this time theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all asleep.

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Castle Field. R

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I love Castle Field with its Little cobbled streets and Leafy trees and

Quaint canals on whose belly Rest the gently

Bobbing boats.

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No Longer Interested. R

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We want to be read Without having to Say a word

We are no longer interested In a world in which

We are not the central piece.

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The Same Page.

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Here we both stand Not merely in

The same place

But on the same page And wavelength As well.

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Whatever and Whoever. R

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Here everyone can

Be whatever and whoever They want to be

And that is one of The beauties

Of being here.

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What an Artwork Tells. R

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What an artwork tells

An artist is none of the

Business of anyone else

It is something between them two Until it is later revealed

By pen or pencil in their work.

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Thought Provoking. R

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If you take a walk

Around Castle Field you

Will be met with a highly Thought provoking Question

Where do the ducks go at night?

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Fashion & Freedom. R

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This picture was taken at Fashion & Freedom. In the foreground is

A dress made by designer Roksanda That I would decidedly wear If yellow was my colour.

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Quack.

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Quack!

Quack?

Quack... Quack.

“Quack” Quack,

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Favourite Season. R

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Autumn is my

Favourite season

The warmth of its mood, its

Air of change, makes me want To be on the move and Do something new.

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Origami Cranes. R

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Fold a thousand Origami Cranes

Hold them all together On a string

Then stand back and Make a wish.

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Enriqueta Rylands

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John Rylands Library A tribute paid by a

Loving wife to her

Deceased Husband

From Enriqueta Rylands to The people of Manchester.

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Gladys Emily. R

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Gladys Emily

Sounds almost unlike

A name someone would Give a boat

Sounds more like the name

Of the princess of Castle Field.

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Flat White. R

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No longer

At crossroads

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve taken my side Among croissants

And flat white and a Selection of salads.

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Outside Smoking. R

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It is rainy and quite cold

So my housemate will not Be found sitting

Outside smoking

For around 20 minutes

He smokes inside instead.

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Building Bridges.

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Geometry, here A synonym of Symmetry

Used for building bridges

To make non-symmetrical Sides marry.

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Raindrops and Dots. R

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Raindrops and Dots and

Amid the grey Little lilting Blobs of

Running colour.

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A Place I Visited. R

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A place I visited

Just once and only

Distantly remember but

Distinctly recall telling myself

That the coffee they serve there Is definitely not coffee.

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Modern Power.

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Empires used to

Spread far and wide And now instead

They rise up and up

Height is the trademark Of modern power.

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A Lot Happening. R

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A lot

Happening here

Something going on All the time

A lot going on

At the same time.

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Reserved Seating. R

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Reserved seating For the Masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Special guests

In his favourite room There has been talk Of eternal glory.

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Like I Never Left. R

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Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m no longer There

And yet itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like I never left No

Even better.

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Stand and Look. R

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In the gallery one must Stand in silence Stand in awe

Stand and look

Closely and admiringly

A little like going to church.

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Thoughts Can Flow.

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Riversides are sacred spaces For contemplation

Where thoughts can

Flow with the water

And who knows where They might end up.

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Leather and Suede. R

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Worn before and now

Ready to be worn again

Appealing weathered look

Vintage real leather and suede From when before

Fast fashion began.

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Sweetest Thing.

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And to know

That the seemingly Sweetest thing can Be out to kill you Is to know

The bitter truth.

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