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REDEVELOPMENT
Remember days playing games
Into long bright nights, old familiar
games played happily, shouting =
Rallyo, rallyo whose got the ball,
and wee Doll's playing three balls
against, an adjacent wall.
Innocent times, Queenio, queenio whose got
the ball. We should have tried to keep those
times in our pockets. I believe we lost our marleys
when living streets where razed, gone down the
road of rubble. We left the characters behind
singing for a few bob, working the picture queues.
St tawesa of de woses the children called him beer bottle.
His name was John Donnelly an inoffensive man.
WE left it all behind, as we moved up the road.
New homes, no more open doors,
locked in closed down lives.
New estates, foreign living.
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