By Joseph Alford

Location: Market Street

Gum on the pavements
Film on her teeth
Tight jeans don’t fit
On this stretch of street

Pretension prevention
Saliva is decadence
But if I want to use language
There’s plenty of precedence

Mouth-washed and side-saddled
Youth killed the coronets
With jovial vitriol
Horns don’t fit the dialect

Twee-bees, glass-smashers
Mods, moshers, drones
A sport-socked strip-mine
A place to call home

Joseph Alford is an unemployed polymath-lite. Resident of Levenshulme since 1981. http://rustavenue.blogspot.com/