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MOTHER
(1904–73)
1
Boys
then as now did not go with their mums
to
football, fishing. They
went to shops
for
school caps, shoes, or did weekly rounds
to
butcher’s, grocer’s. And
got, perhaps,
toffees,
sherbet, bagged up by the ounce.
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(For full text see
the Kindle ebook The
Nature of Things (Collected Poems) by Alan Marshfield)
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