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Not White To Weft (early poem for public art sculpture in Oldham)

 

 

Lay flat and spun together you’ve always run  a town,

each  part is party to the next and  grown

separately  we conflict and seethe  from

it  and sneer from it, no one is happy in  slavery

wouldn’t  talking be a step, food too  and

work  unites us, it’s not them making us  toil

we  all carry the can and  mustn’t

need  to chase our own tale to cause  blame

each  time we feel it’s those;  the

other  people are feeling exactly the  same

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Cathy Crabb

Tue 11th Aug 2015 19:47

Thank you Cynthia. Untwisted is so apt for this!

It is just about the different communities in Oldham who think they are separate but need each other.

Also it is about a mill that only made the weft.

C x

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Cynthia Buell Thomas

Sat 1st Aug 2015 15:17

Haven't quite untwisted it; almost there. Don't want help yet. I'll try again tomorrow. Maybe I'm tired.

PS. I've popped into this on the strength of your name alone. I so admire your work.

Cynthia

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