Cool Gang

BEN FAIRLIGHT

A surly gang of guys, well cool,

Slinks along, hogs the prom –

Seven youths with in-your-face faces

Scuffing their trainers on the shingle spill.

Inflated and scruffy and heading their way,

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A spent popcorn packet skims the red tarmac,

Tumbles its silver light-crisps,

Scatters a scratch-mob of homeless street-doves.

The breeze brings bag and gang together.

Will they half-see, stamp on it, spit or wee….

All derisory? When Alpha’s step lands, there’s

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No bang nor cheers from his peers.

Instead he grabs it, crumples it, carries it

Home to the next bin along –

All in one stride.

The gang processes. Well cool.


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