What’s a town without a Bookshop?

 

With its

Pubs

Its Churches,

One Stop

Mental Health

Shop.

 

Its Hotel’d refugees,

Its Iceland

Buy One

Then

Piss Off

Please.

 

Don’t crowd the door

with your Dog,

It’s not your floor

your bed,

your

Bog.

 

A Thousand stories

On the street

their book deals

scoffed at incomplete,

turn the page

repeat, repeat

 

What’s a town without a Bookshop?

 

Its heart

Its hope

Its gots and not gots

Its noose tied Rope.

Outcast people passing on

Turn the page, they’re gone

Just gone.