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New Blood
New blood spills from the aeroplane
bouncing on the runway like spring rain.
Passport waving out-thrust arm
fancy shoes pointed West
Gene Kelly, video obsessed
dancing peasant with the happiness gene.
Tie straight, collar clean
mad for the chance to twirl his cane
at girls in some teeming town
Sun-parched backwoodsman mad for rain.
Radio waves from some man-made ...
Thursday 9th September 2021 3:15 pm
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