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Farewell and blessings,
Mancunian Picadilly,
Brief seat of learning, intensified in
These swift fin de siècle years,
Confirmed in philosophic robes,
Receding now from sight, past Levershulme
To Stockport, rusted
urbs urbana,
Retiring residential sprawl,
Iconoclastic haunts of mute conformity,
Foresworn to what?
Then Cheadle Hulme, soft hub of
Midlands' damp green plain, and
Poynton, Kidsgrove, Macclesfield, as
(Mind the gap) the rising sun sends
Fragile patterns, bathing, soothing,
Transposing rural pallor, this sleight time,
For hibernating, solstice-dank defoliated
Banks of ship canals - Stoke on Trent ...
Is this seat free?
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