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In a small country
In a small country, in a small town
Where no one goes unless they have to
And all the bright people it has known
have moved out already
Because despite its historical importance –
birth-place of someone famous –
nothing happens here now
(the occasional small town scandal, a stolen cow,
a squalid affair between a carpenter and a teenage girl)
and no one wants to live there now:
Continues...
Michael Docker
In a small country, in a small town
Where no one goes unless they have to
And all the bright people it has known
have moved out already
Because despite its historical importance –
birth-place of someone famous –
nothing happens here now
(the occasional small town scandal, a stolen cow,
a squalid affair between a carpenter and a teenage girl)
and no one wants to live there now:
Continues...
Michael Docker
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