Worthing Road Play Area. Basildon 1972

Gold cherry

By ralph

Fri, 04 Jul 2025
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Worthing Road Play Area. Basildon 1972

 

Those new town early years.

Pushchairs and lollipops.

Paths, kerbs and kicking stones.

The fool’s gold of weak Robinsons.

 

Everywhere children’s footprints.

Mustard sand on blood vessel carpet

trickling down the sofas, peppering

the bedsheets, tiding our bath times.

 

Debbie never liked me much to be fair.

Tore the Valentines up in the play area.

She fell off the slide snogging Terry Perfect.

They had concreted the park the day before.

 

 

 

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Submitted by drew_gummerson on

Haha. Nice last line. 

 

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Submitted by HarryC on

Back in the days when kids went out to play, had adventures, got into scrapes!