Saturday, August 23, 2025

London

 London

Come friendly drones and drop your load
On every glass-and-steel abode;
Drop on the banks, the hedge fund floors,
The coffee chains with endless stores.

Let rain of fire cleanse Oxford Street,
Where buskers shout and preachers bleat;
Where queues for bubble tea grow long,
And TikTok teens all sing the song.

Bring ruin to the City’s core,
Where suited wolves forever score;
To tower blocks that scrape the skies
And block the Thames from weary eyes.

Spare not the lofts in Shoreditch Lane,
The artisan, bespoke, inane;
Nor Chelsea’s gates of iron and glass,
Where silent chauffeurs let them pass.

Yes, level all from west to east,
From Peckham rye to Shoreditch feast;
Till pigeons nest in Parl'ment’s crown—
Then, maybe, we can call it town.

3 comments:

  1. Better to use poetic licence and say Parlement's crown.
    It scans better and is a more sensible spelling anyway
    since the word comes from the French.

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  2. I liked it. Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough atmosphere

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  3. I used an apostrophe instead. Agree it does scan better.

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