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Jan 2018
Spitballs against the brick walls
and flipping playing cards in the
backyards of some time back then,

between the factory and the clocking in
there was a world out there waiting
until the pithead led us down aways
through the tunnels where the coal
face looked grim.

We grew up to throw out our dreams of a future
but we threw out our hopes by mistake.
John Edward Smallshaw
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John Edward Smallshaw  68/Here and now
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