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Demolition

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 They knocked down
my nana’s raa
when they built
the slip-road past the ground.

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 Old yellowing sports pages
pasted on blue walls,
club crest, grainy goal celebrations
programme covers & tickets.

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 The dog track around the pitch crumbling,
memories of ‘50s advertisements
on gable ends, men in suits
smelling of aftershave & brylcreem
on a night out at the pictures.

4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 Mug of coffee in Mario’s café,
watching housewives in jeans & leather jackets
weighed down with plastic shopping bags
walking past a hero cast in bronze
belting an invisible ball perpetually
up a red pedestrianised street.

5 Leave a comment on verse 5 0 A pounding drum rattling
round the high, dark rafters
like a defiant heartbeat
while councillors in cheap pinstripes
want to flatten the lot
& build supermarkets.

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/demolition-2/