Today is the day we seal our fate, celebrate our new insular island mentality, and revel in our own mean spirited selfishness.
It follows on exactly seven days since the Halton Bus Company collapsed. The Halton Bus Company could trace it's history back to 1909, and now it has closed. No more buses for a town of over 61,000 people. This is to be all our futures. Truly the neo-liberal destruction of our quality of life continues apace as our world heats up around us and we need public transport more than ever.
To add insult to injury the crime minister and his elitist chums are favouring the south east over the north of England when it comes to access to extra funds for local government.
It seems we are going back to the past, two hundred years to the oppression of the 1820s.
now that widnes buses have gone bankrupt...
cars
be dammed
he
walks the centre of the road
past
long closed shops
past
their blank windows
he
does not engage – ever
know
this
if
you cannot refuse The Weekly News
then
look no further than page four
avoid
the copyright free filler
Old
Widnes, Memory Corner
whatever
loser name they choose
just
highlights the distance
the
town has fallen
and
by default its citizens
abandoned
as they were on the starting blocks
of
this new brave future
when
he was a child
the
main street ran from Peelhouse Lane
all
the way to the river
he
walks not fast not slow
just
the perfect speed
for
a forgotten post industrial town
that
is marooned amid technology
that
was old last century
On a lighter note, I shall be reading at 2000 Trees Festival this summer. I am putting together the poetry for this splendid festival and am already looking forward to it.
Here's Deaf Havanna, a band I have seen many times at Trees.
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