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A londoner in love with St Ives, visiting several times a year. An artist and writer of many things including poetry, haiku and a novel in progress. Numerous haiku published and some poetry in the past, is writing poems again, so watch this space.
When I have that dream,
asleep or awake,
of myself,
young and beautiful,
in some kind of Hollywood movie,
I know I should
shy away from
the poetic romanticising
of poverty,
yet still I find
my portrayal of itinerate factory hands
and old American cars,
attractive.
I have never worked in a factory
or seen the sun blaze down
on a dusty Cadillac,
except in films
which depict
a kind of hellish heaven,
earthy, scrumptious
dangerous and wild.
Publication: Running for nothing, 2004, Ram Publications, ISBN 0 9545630 4 2, £4.50
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