Fifties and Sixties

Edgeley Road S.W.4.

Looking back
there was all that time

We had so much to wish away
So many hours and minutes
Made up
a dawdling day
Impatient for
the sudden thrill
Or something
new to do
Laughing at
the silliest jokes
Home comforts
measly few
Making camps
on bombed sites
Scrumping apples

hard and sour
We were a bunch
of bleeding kids
Knock-down-ginger
what a shower
On rainy days
we’d run for cover
Sheltered in
the tenement lobbies
Moved on for
the noise we’d make
To ‘Eff-off’ home
and do our hobbies