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ONE AND ONLY

ONE AND ONLY

imagine
you are one
moment
   naked in
the street
in Hamburg

the one before
in Strawberry Fields
with Yoko

the next
     being introduced to
Paul

the next being blown
away by a jealous soul
with a snub-
nosed special

imagine a
         world become
so non-linear

everything you are and were
revolving forever on a carousel

imagine that
    Mr Sergeant Pepper’s
one and
    only Billy Shears

ALONG

UK OK (not so very)

        still solid
    (courtesy of Victorian
architecture)

crazy high aquaducts
    (now exactly what
               do they do?)

university I went to
down main road manchester
freshly
    returned from
south africa

settler colonial
(apartheid to
           god knows who else
and me
and you)

but on that diet of dismal
how stuff going to grow properly?

how stuff going to flourish
when for best moral fibre
getting
     force-fed gloom

red, white, blue
flag should be slate grey and
colour
     most exploitative

see your politicians now
scared at the thought
                               people

might
     have their
                       own ideas

university down oxford street
(or was it road?)
                 taught me something
about the
    economic of F and K
(plaque proclaims
them
                    the previous tenants)

anarchy
OK OK    strawberries
spoiled, by
                      this time
was
          the late 70s

ust rattle your cheap jewellery here
                                  and I’ll
imagine
            in falsetto

less than happily singing along