Fills you with majesty it does, this ****** place –
a few stars above.
When light left this one, Napoleon walked the earth.
This other, Julius Caesar.
Wonderful - The whole dreadful lot of it.
A train approaches – headlights and what have you,
colouring the sky pink, like everything else around here –
this strip of crust, this bay, these obscure designs of a people,
moralisers and chastisers and spell checkers breathing temperate breaths. in and out all day for 160 ka, or there about.
haughty on pretence – out there on July 26th 1807, the Rochdale sank with a pop, a bang and a glug,
The Prince of Wales wouldn’t be left behind. GLUG GLUG GLUG.
and the night came over all funny just then,
fizzled into something else for a short while and returned to its current state.
NOBODY NOTICED
Venting my irritation at myself and all the rest of it. This is what Wordsworth would have written like if he used public transport.