Jarrow

Jarrow

The Neon is out yet it is Three?
The bent metal spares him.*
Speeding down the Sixties.
Only tablets of flagstones,
Left of the Routemaster Street.

But what if the Sukhoi did land?

In the rafters
I touch a butterfly
And it turns to dust.

11th April 2003 (Revised 21st January 2009)

*A man left The Neon Social Club in Primrose,
Jarrow, a sunny Sunday in 1963. Over the Limit,
Speeding down Perth Avenue, he had not
realised the A19 had been built since his last
visit to The Neon. Narrowly avoidind decapitation,
He then quietly disappeard, to avoid being arrested.