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'Grandmother' by Richard Langston
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'Grandmother' by Richard Langston
A couple of days
After our grandmother died
I went shoplifting
To even the score.
We buried her in sunshowers
On a hill
Overlooking the sea.
She would’ve preferred to be close
to the TAB.
Shouting at the radio
making black toast on the coalrange
exclaiming in another language
Yawalee. Zebo toast. Go! Go!
Dark-hair headscarf cheekbones,
An exotic gypsybird in the suburbs.
She left
Her fox fur
Hanging
Behind the door.
A couple of days
After our grandmother died
I went shoplifting
To even the score.
We buried her in sunshowers
On a hill
Overlooking the sea.
She would’ve preferred to be close
to the TAB.
Shouting at the radio
making black toast on the coalrange
exclaiming in another language
Yawalee. Zebo toast. Go! Go!
Dark-hair headscarf cheekbones,
An exotic gypsybird in the suburbs.
She left
Her fox fur
Hanging
Behind the door.
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Family
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