Bare midriffs above belt-like skirts© GERALD ENGLAND
dangerously diverting drivers' eyes
Low gears on steep summer-sun-sweating hills
forsaking the motorways for country lanes
A Metro-van chasing an Audi Sports
obliquely overtaking an old VW
Sun-seeking families of all shapes and sizes
spilling out of Volvos, Vauxhalls and Fords
Ice-cream vans and mobile tea-shops
carrying on their business with acumen
Babies wailing, children playing,
radios blaring out news and noise
And somewhere behind the hoary, human hordes
lies the beauty of the scenery they've all come to see
Composed: Sheffield, 1st June 1970
Publications
1971 Bogg (UK)
1973 Eulogy (UK)
1980 THE RAINBOW AND OTHER POEMS (Heckmondwyke, Fighting Cock Press)
1990 Eavesdropper (UK)
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