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POEMS
Created: 3rd September, 2015

The seagulls

The seagulls think we live at the seaside:
the tower blocks are their cliffs;
they swoop for fish in the gutter
but are happy that it's last night's fried rice.
They stand about screaming on the pavement beach
and ride the sea-breezes pumped out
by the cinema air-conditioning.
They hover over the waves of cars
and if you stare at them,
wondering what they're doing
so far from home, 
they stare back:
'This is our home now.
That kebab 
is a crab.'

From Michael Rosen's Big Book of Bad Things. 

Why not try...
  • watching seagulls and imagining what they are saying to each other.

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Michael Rosen - The seagulls

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