dream:
for some reason,
I didn't have to do my 3:15.
pushed the night button,
stopped the right stop,
something. And then alarm rang.
tired, early this morning.
took a train to Bath
and looked at the curiosities.
no reason to stay,
all the reason to come back.
wondering at the English evolution
of master and servant.
how did the whole notion of
"better than your peers" evolve?
what seafarers' cottoning
got them into trouble?
In Bath there once lived a young lady
who would write 3 novels or maybe,
before she was 22
and I don't know about you
Jane Austen is well past her heyday.
my midnight attempt at bawdy humor.
Bath very interested in the
Jane Austen connection,
who didn't seem to like it much
although she mentions it in all works.
Islington. the sixth floor does nothing
to dampen the sound of traffic,
even the hour doesn't help.
a tenement once built for policemen
and their families,
no one can explain the gate just
behind the door
which belongs on a jail cell block.
coincidence? someone's second-hand
treasure that just fit the hall?
Joe Orton lived near here,
in Angel. the house still there,
occupied by new tenants,
young men who think it "cool."
only a small round plaque
high up on the wall
near the roof
to denote that he one lived here.
and, it should be added,
no safe loo within a click.
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