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A walled garden
Surrounded by:
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one deer of an excitable disposition
three vandals in top-of-the-range trainers
a castleful of OAPs
a constipation of traffic
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Flown over by:
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arthritic pigeons with iron hinges
a plethora of planes
a sparrow which unaccountably dropped its nest
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Smelling over:
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four star petrol
assorted herbs
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Slithered upon by:
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a spaghetti of worms
an ooze of snails
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With:
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rising damp in the lawn which is shaved to a number one
one coy Tesco bag tucked under a hedge's wing
a concrete pre-cast fountain with nozzle implants
a thrush enjoying a cold collation of Red Thai chicken salad
a rose's foreskin pulled back red and crinkly
releasing a single drop of wobbly dew
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And all marked out like a fremason's apron, measured and made
precisely, like Louis the Sun King's parterres at Versailles.
Live workers tribute to dead workers
Resting in peace after the final whistle
A solitary
ant
crawls over a bag of crisps.
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