Sheena Blackhall Poems

The Berners Street Hoax
Berners Street was located in a wealthy part of London, directly off of Oxford Street. Mrs. Tottenham herself was described by newspapers as "a woman of fortune." Her maid's anxiety rose when deliveries arrived not ordered by the household. This elaborate hoax was one of the main events in the news of 1810.
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Dear Terrestrials

The plastic in my fathoms
Ten times worse than the start of the century!
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In clouds of creamy frothy flowers
The Meadowsweet in summer's seen
In ditch and bank it wafts its scent
Bride wort, or Dolloff, Meadow Queen
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A nice bacon sandwich, sausage,pork chops
Blood, bones and beer, ham, bullets and sweets
Shampoo, body lotion, liquorice, ice cream
Wine gums and gelatine, other nice treats
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Seen:
In the second garden on the left on the way to the Bracklinn Falls.
A pot in a minister's back garden, terribly restricted and sad.
A wee plantation of trees in a local arboretum, like a gathering of the WRI
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Today, I visited a herd of cows
No calling card, I dropped in uninvited
Rudely, I interrupted their peaceful grazing
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Doric owersett o theRoma Poet Papusza's Tears o Bluid

In the wids. Nae watter, nae lowe- a muckle hunger
Far could the bairns sleep? Nae bowie.
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Like toys with which we play
They must obey our will,
Sit, beg, come, go away
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Gordon Highlanders, sent to Changi prison,
Were told they were going to Thailand for a holiday

There they were set to work on the Death Railway
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The mountain overlooks the town ofZermatt
It is one of the deadliest peaks in the world
It is a four faced pyramid
Icey, steep, skirted by glaciers
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