Born by the river, out in the sticks<\/p>\n
I was born on a bend on the Forty Eighty-six<\/p>\n
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Making old friends, Rubicon tricks<\/p>\n
Much still to fix on the Forty Eighty-six<\/p>\n
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Romans rode here, hear the hoof clicks<\/p>\n
Some see their ghosts on the Forty Eighty-six<\/p>\n
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Journey’s the same, the dead and the quick’s<\/p>\n
Cutting through the mist on the Forty Eighty-six<\/p>\n
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Executor, executrix<\/p>\n
Fresh eggs for sale on the Forty Eighty-six<\/p>\n
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Love lasts forever, young love pricks<\/p>\n
Some are still searching on the Forty Eighty-six<\/p>\n
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Stone and timber, timber and bricks<\/p>\n
Much to remember on the Forty Eighty-six<\/p>\n
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Stacks with plenty, plenty with nix<\/p>\n
Weather unrelenting on the Forty Eighty-six<\/p>\n
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Players pretend with frantic theatrics<\/p>\n
Not just teenage kicks on the Forty Eighty-six<\/p>\n
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They fought before with axes and picks<\/p>\n
Fought a Civil War on the Forty Eighty-six<\/p>\n
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The pain they pray is the lame and the sick’s<\/p>\n
May one day fade away on the Forty Eighty-six<\/p>\n
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Some are flame throwers, swear like Bill Hicks<\/p>\n
Others grow church flowers on the Forty Eighty-six<\/p>\n
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Hat-tricks won, missed penalty kicks<\/p>\n
Dislocating hips on the Forty Eighty-six<\/p>\n
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Life ain’t a sweetshop just selling Twix<\/p>\n
It’s a big ol’ pic’n’mix on the Forty Eighty-six<\/p>\n
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Simon called Peter, Richard’s nicked Dick’s<\/p>\n
Some names are made on the Forty Eighty-six<\/p>\n
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Magicians vape smoke with their cash and card tricks<\/p>\n
Magic’s still a secret on the Forty Eighty-six<\/p>\n
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Some write with quills, sharper than Bics<\/p>\n
Slanty-i<\/em>d italics on the Forty Eighty-six<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A thief may never know from whom he nicks<\/p>\n Flash cars flashing past on the Forty Eighty-six<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ringing guitars’ lickety licks<\/p>\n Bending like Hendrix on the Forty Eighty-six<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Choose party sex over party politics<\/p>\n Horny Burke’s dilemma on the Forty Eighty-six<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Peace wind blowing Vulcan aeronautics<\/p>\n Once heroed Hurricanes on the Forty Eighty-six<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hellfire statistics, bullet ballistics<\/p>\n But now bombs won’t win wars on the Forty Eighty-six<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Some speak the truth, some speak synthetics<\/p>\n Some don’t speak at all on the Forty Eighty-six<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Birds and beasts, lambs and chicks<\/p>\n Nature’s an engraver on the Forty Eighty-six<\/p>\n <\/p>\n No slow runners, torched Olympics<\/p>\n Silver, bronze, gold on the Forty Eighty-six<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Carabosse dusk dirt-track dominatrix<\/p>\n Allsortsa country matters on the Forty Eighty-six<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Peacock feathers flair in fancy flicks<\/p>\n Pride falls like darkness on the Forty Eighty-six<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ain’t surprised the dead get more crosses than ticks<\/p>\n Many miles of road on the Forty Eighty-six<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Paul Curran was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1975. He holds a degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Oxford and a Masters Degree from the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama. He has worked widely as a professional actor.\u00a0His Only Sonnet<\/strong>\u00a0loosely follows the pattern of the seasons, comprised of 100+ ‘alternative’ sonnets;\u00a0Repeat Fees\u00a0<\/strong>and its 80 sonnets and longer poems was published in July 2017.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Born by the river, out in the sticks I was born on a bend on the Forty Eighty-six Making old friends, Rubicon tricks Much still to fix on the Forty Eighty-six Romans rode here, hear the hoof clicks Some see their ghosts on the Forty Eighty-six Journey’s the same, the dead and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":1688,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1],"tags":[193],"class_list":["post-1552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","category-uncategorized","tag-2018may"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}