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On first looking into an A to Z

My talent (or my curse) is getting lost:

my routes are recondite and esoteric.

Perverted turns on every road I crossed

have dogged my feet from Dover up to Berwick.

My move to London only served to show

what fearful feast of foolishness was mine:

I lost my way from Tower Hill to Bow,

and rode the wrong way round the Circle Line.

In nameless London lanes I wandered then

whose tales belied my tattered A to Z,

and even now, in memory again

I plod despairing, Barking in my head,

still losing track of who and where I am,

silent, upon a street in Dagenham.

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Nov 1, 2010
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