Halfway home

missed the bus
so I’ll walk home
pavement of Great Victoria Street

round Shaftsbury Square
there’s no one there
couple of drumsticks on a building

Sammy goes South
walked all the way
Port Said to Durban

Solly Lipsitz
plenty of jazz
Sonny Rollins face on an album

short back and sides
Dunmurry line
cross the bridge with my hair long

round the back of Queen’s
slip into dreams
what if I was epileptic

Methodist College
rival of Inst
telltale tie in my pocket

get the six o’clock
no point to wait
head on out the Malone Road

called it the shoebox
where Gordon Bull lived
before he moved to London

Richmond Lodge
look for Mum’s Mini
today’s not a day she’s a teacher

Inchmarlo stop
mute relic still there
the pull out stone to sit on