Poem: ‘Heritage’
Martin Green, 7 August 1980
Stockport, Cheshire; Heath Street, Hampstead, A basement off the Gray’s Inn Road; Coram Fields, the Foundling Hospital, My father dressed like a gipsy Sawing his cello in Lyon’s Corner House, Grandpa with the Sunday joint And a trip to the gods at Sadler’s Wells On Saturday afternoons. This was my heritage; And many demonstrations, An infant revolutionary wheeled in a pram...