Leave

 

Goodbye Sussex.
Goodbye Hampshire.
Goodbye southcoast.
Goodbye St. George and your dragon.
Goodbye the rose,


Goodbye to Blake's 'green and pleasant land'.
Goodbye to Middleton On Sea.
Goodbye to Felpham and every remnant of my ex gf
and every england memory.
Goodbye to the disgruntled who caught the wrong side of me.
or mistaken who it was I'm meant to be.
Goodbye time on the dole.
Goodbye the stress,the strife and the rigmarole.
Goodbye all the women who never gave me the time of day
Goodbye all the people who never let me have my say.
Goodbye the cunts, the clowns and  let me downs.
Goodbye to all the places I never saw ,the little sea side towns.
Goodbye that hope I had when I first came,
goodbye my expectation things would be the same.
 Goodbye ideas of journalism as a career.
Goodbye to many an insecurity and fear.
Goodbye to being a foreigner
goodbye to the girl I once only called 'Her'.
Goodbye flooding.
Goodbye beasties of all kinds.
Goodbye to selfish Exs.
Goodbye to book exchanges and second hand book stores.
Goodbye to closed doors.
Goodbye naive views of friendship.
Goodbye to the homesicknesses harsh whip.


Goodbye my dreamed future.
Goodbye Arrogant Andrew, too good for me Keri.
Goodbye Sciatica and hayfever.
Goodbye rejection,loneliness, boredom,chained down.
Goodbye disillusionment and disappointment.
Goodbye Ska dancing.
Goodbye Sea lane.
Goodbye hook lane on the way to sams party,sun setting,music in ears, farmers working the field.
Goodbye motorbike rides to see Decaarta.
Goodbye to the Channel.
Goodbye to Bersted,Pagham,Elmer,Littlehampton,Barnam,ford,Angmering, worthing,horsham,Chichester,Southhampton,Winchester and Brighton.
Goodbye any potential for me and Sian.
Goodbye to late nights on beaches,fireworks and one stop girls.
Goodbye Hotham park with it's hide and seek,picnics,writings,wanderings.
goodbye green railway bridge
goodbye railway track
goodbye rail station
Goodbye cheap friendly local cinema.
goodbye Fitzleet  high rise flats-ugly in daylight,majestic by moonlight
goodbye mild rightwing rants and unconcerned parents.  
Goodbye dan drunk, me talkin to everybody down the pub.
goodbye new years at nats house,andys party,tim and danielles party,
johnnys party, countless birthdays
Goodbye Bognor's rag race.
Goodbye meeting random girls in Hatters ,george,crown.
goodbye karoke in the crown.
goodbye oceans,cheers.
goodbye Dropzone at cheers.
Goodbye late night Tesco munchies.
Goodbye walking home poor.
Goodbye 700 coastliner.
Goodbye Star 1.
Goodbye the Beresford.
Grateful Goodbye to racism.
Goodbye to coming home 11pm on the train
Goodbye to friday nights out after work.
goodbye to sheks and thursdays.
Goodbye to hatters, The george,the crown and the dolphin.
Goodbye to my Occupy brothers and sisters of october 2011.
Goodbye to the friends won and lost.
Goodbye Morrisons that had fed me.
Goodbye Chichester Road's traffic.
Goodbye Kerrang Relentless tour.
Goodbye Chichester College days.
goodbye denigrating jibes.
Goodbye to train journeys and the river Arun.
Goodbye to bognor  and it's characters-  radio man,singing man,drunk and homeless  at the train station. Goodbye to the two hot girls in the chip shops and the cute shy barmade.
Goodbye to the goth girls, the scene girls, the homely girls.
Goodbye to the nerdy girls and the one who for months stole my heart-star trek, dr who and all.
Goodbye to the glaswegian girl and boy.
Goodbye to my ex mother in law.
Goodbye chinese buffet,sushi bar and pub lunches.
Goodbye youthful dreams  of love.

Goodbye crazed politics.
Goodbye Family in absentia.
Goodbye split between home and location
goodbye national prejudices and ignorance.
goodbye fundamental lack of understanding.
Goodbye pining away for a triumphant return to MY City.
goodbye to the shitty friends.
goodbye to those mosh pits.
goodbye to decent friends.
Goodbye to chichester as Chi
goodbye to anglicized diction.
Goodbye to littlehampton as LA.

Goodbye to Wordsmith wednesday,
Brighton Unitarian Church,
Occupy Brighton
and WH Smith.


( From 16th January 2013. About me leaving England.A mix of literal and metaphor.lots of memories good and bad.)