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Agony Street

This is my street.

This is where I live.

This is where I’ll die:

In Agony Street.

This is where I call the shots;

This is where I make the rules;

This is where I knock the spots

Off those who don’t comply,

However hard they try.

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Stephen Gospage

Mon 10th Aug 2020 11:31

Thanks to Abdul and Brian.

It is interesting to see how a few lines of verse and can give rise to different interpretations.

Some people who have seen this think it is a warning of a bleak dystopian, conformist future.

And me? I don't know, I just wrote it!

More power to your elbows.

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Abdul Ahmad

Sun 9th Aug 2020 19:08

Lord of the Manor. Arise Sir Stephen.

You sort out the riffrafs.

Enjoyed it.

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