"This one is for my fellow Bracken Close dwellers, rocking old borrowed sweaters cos we came unprepared for the cold weather, but we made it 'Home'. ".

.....A follow on to my last piece 'Borokiri', named after the street I moved to when we first came to Inglan'

Background music credits...

Colorful Flowers by Tokyo Music Walker | https://soundcloud.com/user-356546060
Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/
Creative Commons CC BY 3.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

...before jumpers for goals, 'monkey post' was how we mastered the touch/ re-enacting Atalanta heroics underneath a sun burning hot/ like..Amokachi ...to Kanu... feint, drop the shoulder, then shot / post and in, shirt gone, run off being chased up the block...

...a snapshot of childhood dedicated to Borokiri, my old neighbourhood in Port Harcourt, Nigeria.

..a poem for my little lady.

*background music is a short looped sample of 'Your Daddy Loves You' by Gil Scott-Heron / Brian Jackson which inspired this (well his version from the Real Eyes album which is a bit more upbeat)

..making my way through the hordes of people, I see a face in the crowd

as it slaloms through the blur of bodies I try to trace it 

tracking those faintly familiar features as it flashes through the sea of faces

I quickly filter through past encounters, people and places, tryna place it

a matter of seconds before the moment's gone

..where do I know him from?

....Dave?

I'm at the station, I'm waiting for the train to Birmingham via, well, a whole lotta destinations...

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