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SHAZAM!
Hereward The Wake – Last of the English! The Lone Ranger gallops through the suburbs,
his sidekick on the smaller horse. Legends
gather, like tumbleweed – Beowulf, Robin Hood.
He’s making for the badlands of the best
hotel, where blue-chinned ones with foreign names,
amidst the liquor and the girls, conspire…
Elsewhere, no one is wholly innocent
but in rhetorical worlds – Question Time
in the House, the lounge of the Albion,
the Synod – there are only opposites.
‘Good’ and ‘evil’ have a human shape…
The gun smoke clears and everyone is dead.
“Long live Captain Marvel!”
2 responses to “SHAZAM!”
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Coincidence is in itself a strange beast. My daughter has just bought me ‘Hereward’ by James Wilde. Hereward The Wake is billed as the last Englishman, the first forgotten freedom fighter and the forgotten hero’. As I only know the name it will be interesting to know the man.
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Is that The Albion in Chester – standing in for England? Shazam indeed to Talking Heads everywhere!
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