Brad Evans is a poet in the U.K.  This poem turned my crank:

write a poem about Cambridge

Sure, I'll write a poem about Cambridge

about the spires, the backs, the colleges, the privileged;

what the tourists are shown by the busload.

but I prefer to write about cambridge...

about my neighbours

struggling with alcoholism, struggling for survival, unable to save.

I want to write about those I see without shelter,

sleeping on cardboard by shop entrances along mill road in the summer

those denied care by a profit-driven health system,

the eastern european women trucked in as sex workers

both local people and immigrants alike exploited for their labour

the young and old alike who can't afford their own housing...

and this is just a little of what I think of

when you ask me to write a poem about Cambridge.

Last update : 06-11-2007 19:03

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