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Tuesday, 10 June 2014

Long Hot Summer

Mind wonders to those days of melted tarmac
Folks complaining they can’t sleep at night

Hoping for a long hot summer

On those summers long ago, folks bitch about the hose pipe ban
The press blaming heat on an invasion of strange insects
And I'm still sat here.

Hoping for a long hot summer

Long hot afternoons at Wimbledon ladies final
As a young adolescent more interested in what’s up the skirt?
Rather than love 14

Hoping for a long hot summer

Summer romances and a fumble in the bushes
Endless days and days of the battle of the ashes,
All keen to see the footie season again

Hoping for a long hot summer

Days out at Brid so hot the ice cream melts so quick
The kids shouting on the coach “are we there yet”
Those wonderful seaside fish n chips
Sat on the beach observing red and peeling backs, overdoing it in the sun

Hoping for a long hot summer

I sit hear dreaming of those days
Those days that seem sweet to me
Instead if living in the nightmare of a hateful right wing society
Hoping that this is really a dream and I will wake up

Hoping to wake up on that beach
In the Long hot summer

©Martin Hickman;June 2013






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