Stream Of Norfolk 2

In Thetford, you breathed the air around Tom Paine's
You lost the fairest damsel that ever did walk in chains
You rhyme 'harm' with 'charm' on the Abbey estate
but otherwise either pass by, or go to Sainsburies
- even Macdonalds. Fillet of fish. Even that has an historic taste.

Instead of documenting, you are the document. Fodder for illiterates
You write to Trump and even praise his independence. but it's not the same as yours.

When even George Bush says 'bigotry is emboldened', the competition for irrelevance
hots up. Fake News about the White House. The enemies are the old enemies and the new enemies are the old enemies and the old enemies are now new. Who isn't?

Tax, scorched earth, legislation by fiat. Illegal Mexicans drop by 78%

The left is complicit in dodgy dossiers... So long Marianne.

and God bless Thetford.

Stream Of Norfolk

You know these roads;

On these tracks, you have waited

Giving proper support to other lives

First there were children

And you waited for them

Sometimes women

In Letheringsett and Glandford

By the source of the Wensum:

Life's tragedies lightened in charity shops and tearooms of Georgian towns: Parkin, Norfolk Shortbread, Biscottis in the farm cafes where young parents in Lycra look like they are still children. 

You still watch with a different level of patience and interest., detached now. 

You are the son of the 3 day week and the father of Lycra.

You are rare in having poverty reward you with a soul but spare you from the disposable income which would haul you round Australia in a Humby. 

You thank someone else's God as you leave Cromer Odeon, shortlisted for Cinema of the year. 

You'd vote, if you could download the Ap. but you can't. There isn't time. 

You don't go into charity shops anymore. 

There's a rat under the shed and that's just the tip of it. 

It has rained every day this September. 

You're ready for the dark nights and you wonder: " Did we look as happy and well as this lot? They seem to have nice cars, great bodies, children, patience and wisdom. They're like a super race. What should we feel guilty about? They don't need Europe - all the world is at their feet. Mark my words." And you do - you write them down only to have your children show you how to turn auto save back on long after you'd lost everything - digitally, that is. 

You may buy a boat.

Trust Wise and Listless or List Wise and Trustless - Whatever. (With acknowledgments to Andy Fairweather Lowe)

Sovereign-identity applications lead a solitary life.
Their bodies are not touched by our minds.

The way to know just who you deal with is not to make friends anymore;
A trust-less protocol has risen.

Interoperability now replaces the old Palais
We don't meet by the Lions..

The faces of old friends pets line the walls of social media homes
As you ride a driverless bus

To hear your test results from a doctor alive or a Locum you've heard is quite nice
(Of course our faces always changed

Love was interoperable from the beginning, whatever life management platform
You might have found yourself on).