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the sky had slipped over Clapham/
distant red seam, edge-flaking sky-metal,
like the back of some ... filthy cave/ buildings coated
in NASA drips/ leaking space-stations/
it's hard to over-do
how that part of Battersea depresses me,
streets a wave
of lava from the power station/
I am still inhaling you/
you were a surprise/
Camden weed
winter on the schoolbus
taxis over Hammersmith