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Middle England
Happy Hour and Early Doors
beneath the oak tree beams
noise and clatter
laughter chatter,
Barnwell Bitter, golden
flowing faster than the Nene.
Heavy blouses, open shirts
Monday night at seven.
Candles stuck in bottles
contents long since gone,
one said 1971, yellow label
boasting in the hearth
no fire tonight . . . .
Indian summer fading
through the narrow windows.
The menu long, exotic,but
they ran out of stew and dumplings!
I had the last, Alan had a steak.
It was ever so,harvest in
plough and harrow shiny
summer rust worn bright again,
wheat and straw, potato still to lift.
Hay in plastic wraps stacked high
stables now a country home
where Jessop once munched hay.
Old England passing by.
Gone the days when Constable
painted leaking thatch
hollyhocks, hens and bare-foot children
washing on the hedge to dry.
Sweet nostalgia drinking here,
4x4s left in the yard
walking home Barnwell Bitter up to here!
Waking sparrows and the blackbird
trying to sleep,chill in the air
Open shirts now buttoned-up
heavy blouses too.
beneath the oak tree beams
noise and clatter
laughter chatter,
Barnwell Bitter, golden
flowing faster than the Nene.
Heavy blouses, open shirts
Monday night at seven.
Candles stuck in bottles
contents long since gone,
one said 1971, yellow label
boasting in the hearth
no fire tonight . . . .
Indian summer fading
through the narrow windows.
The menu long, exotic,but
they ran out of stew and dumplings!
I had the last, Alan had a steak.
It was ever so,harvest in
plough and harrow shiny
summer rust worn bright again,
wheat and straw, potato still to lift.
Hay in plastic wraps stacked high
stables now a country home
where Jessop once munched hay.
Old England passing by.
Gone the days when Constable
painted leaking thatch
hollyhocks, hens and bare-foot children
washing on the hedge to dry.
Sweet nostalgia drinking here,
4x4s left in the yard
walking home Barnwell Bitter up to here!
Waking sparrows and the blackbird
trying to sleep,chill in the air
Open shirts now buttoned-up
heavy blouses too.
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