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Saturday 5 September 2020

Darlington (September 2020)

Post-industrial hinterlands,
Of working-class aspirants,
And middle-class myopics,
Reflecting on their past,
Through white-UPVC,
Refurbished Victorian windows,

The lost lands of Militant,
Submerged in private-ownership,
Drowning red-brick terraces,
In sole-trader ethernets, and
"Personal Independence Payments"
For a deconstructed labour

Wake-up your philanthropic history,
And resurrect the mystery, of
Why a High-Street paved in Euro-gold
Voted "Leave" with Northern Soul,
In an HS2 train dissappearing, now
Down someone else's tracks.....?