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Another highly enjoybale and well observed narrative Gyppo.
Dave
 

Enjoyable slice of urban history.

I much enjoyed the fun and wisdom of this poem

Thanks AJ
You make a good point about the dancing women as you ahve done before. I will take it to heart. Thanks
 

In absence of new poetry I am recycling black and white rolling hills become pellucid, true, fudged greens no longer merge into hazy browns, slurred voweled  forests and earth, trees emerge as facts, their branches brittle against a canvas of pale grasses that soften and deepen, flow in waves among ...

Part of any interest in recent wars - those post second world war - might be in how poor major armies that are in love with their own fire power seem to be. Russia in the Ukraine just seems to be another in a long line of conflicts whereby the great power may well prevail, though it is not a given, ...

Fun poem and observations Gyppo. 
Dave
 

Well the poem is certainly dramatic. Not sure about the love making it depicts though. The poem has great sounds and interesting word choices but I just don't believe it.
Dave

By the way, why the apostrophe in the title?

I can't help feeling the poem would work better if actually written from the point of view of the boy. As it is, for me it keeps us at a distance from the boy by referrign to hom with what are quite condescending terms: the kid, the lad, the boy who has a sibling - no teen I know of ever refers to a...