Terry Street revisited

Terry Street – Douglas Dunn wrote a series of Terry Street poems in the 60s – Terry Street has been demolished and rebuilt – it is none the better for it. 

they were young – and still are

but walk like old men

leaning on sticks

some struggle on crutches –

loaned from the Infirmary –

they never danced for joy and cannot now

their legs too stiff – their veins too brittle

the world was all before them

pleasant pathways open to them

they chose a dingy by-way

and over time their wandering steps

faltered them to Terry Street

where they congregate in squalor

awaiting the parousia

of Bath Salts and Spice

I wish them grass.