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Created: 6th October, 2021

Where?

He said,

“I can’t stand it any more.

It’s doing me head in.

This place used to be like a village.

Its full of foreigners,” he said.

“I love Walthamstow,” he said,

“but I can’t stay here.

I’m going.” he said.

 

So I said, “Where? Where are you going?”

And he said,

“Spain.”

 

© Michael Rosen, from On the Move: Poems About Migration, Walker, 2020

 

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