Gordon Wardman
Stalingrad is still a Metro Station
(apologies to Peter Blackman)
some folk lost their history in a sink of vodka
and some in a jumble of theme parks,
but the French related to theirs like fraternal bindweed
as the young guide said at Fontevraud
(Plantagenet palace, Jean Genet gaol)
“naturally you want to see the tombs of your English kings”
- something you couldn’t usually do in England
in England they buried Cromwell’s skull in secret,
and where were the bones of Byron’s bear?
- even Tam thought Ton Paine was a character from Widecombe Fair
drinks arrived, Hank’s analysis switched to Wakes Week node,
the past coming down to what to do today
- you want to go see some dead people in Père Lachaise?
- dead people sounds good, how do we get there?
Now may I rendezvous with the world
- if we’re still breathing, we’ll take the Metro,
- six stops from Stalingrad, comrade
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