OUR MAN in COROZAL, dave delacroix: No. 89: "SHEFFIELD."

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OUR MAN in COROZAL; dave delacroix: No. 89: "SHEFFIELD."

Across the GIG, Sheffield, across your heart, across the slimey canal, the river DON where U hear splosh, sink, then seem like nothing; that last taste of honey, bubble UP, that renaissance of abstract ART? Or at the GRAVES ART GALLERY, aptly named; Squirrel-squid, encompasses your PRIMITIVE; sez: where WE began? MUM's hands worn to BEATLES music bone? I was PUSHED in thr River D.by a Skin-head/got Typhus for a week? I SEE this punk till the day I die, his ASS is mine! Sheffield promise. I'll kill his kids!?..Brooklyn NYC, no worries. Thought of becoming a Painter?

ACROSS, brutally, slings, bloody Cross-bows, your bloodied INDUSTRIAL heart, awaiting some Skeleton at the factory door? What GRIT romance or vanquished dis-memberment...on 2 legs...can U find JOY at the Sheffield RAG Market, abolished, incorporated...and almost IN SITU, designed, but IS no more? What Sheffield CRETINS, for wealth,  designed it SO? CASTLE MARKET?...Or the outlying Mansions and Manor Houses, demolished by local property predators, sights and scenes, on bicycle I would, in "old England" explore? All seemed polluted or demolished? Archeology in Britain-1960s wasn't valued?....Love to WOKE THAT money trail?

Across the RIVER DON, Student, 1966, clean it UP-Project .The SONS/DAUGHTER thigh-high, pulling out industrial TRASH from the River.  SHEFFIELD. The last English-Industrial "SHITHOLE"; the last "URBAN RE-MODEL". 1960s STUDENTS were ABSOLUTELY COOL.

 Up/commers/wannabe Students would connect out CAMPING-WEEKENDS in the PEAK DISTRICT; they mostly studied PHILOSOPHY and mostly ALL  ended up as Gardeners, Sanitary Workers, "kept-men",  or joining some obscure LUTE band?...They HAD... these Students...the honour of Graffitti-ing the Central Bus Station ARC by X by! No one complained. Upper deck BUS passengers enjoyed the "YA!!!"...Not EASY to have a "YA!" in B/W grimey 1960s England on TOP of the Bus Station? "RAG-65!!!"....For NON-Brits, "Rag-Day", the day University Students collect CHARITY MONEY/Rattle Coin boxes, permitted to have a good time. Mischief, within reason Ok. S-posed.

People LIVED. SHEFFIELD. They had a couple of LYONS TEA SHOPS, JEWISH CAFE, next to the Victorian City Hall... In the CITY HALL? Like Washington D.C., USA, cluttered with MONEY FOLKS, like today, toe-rags. Across the GIG, cheap-ass High rises were built & collapsed, SOCIAL WORKERS invaded to "Fix" whatever good old Hippies were protesting to be done; most of Em got the frick out ASAP . The Hippies/college, buzzed off? The FIRST TV Cable outfit was launched! I played a song or 2 IN a "TV STUDIO!?... SHEFFIELD. The original STEEL TOWN dating back to mention in the "Canterbury Tales.". Me and HUMAN LEAGUE! ...lol.

No worries. Even in MY lifetime; JOE COCKER, Def Leopard, Human League, Metabelious-3, Cabaret Voltaire, Thompson Twins, correct me if I am in err. Every COMMUNITY ejects its "bright sparks"; S-way it is? SHEFFIELD, the INCUBUS: The Pastoral, the INSIDIOUS INDUSTRIAL, the later SOCIAL CANNIBALISM....it lies at a Survivors feet.

c.2021, dave delacroix,our man in Corozal, always homesick I guess.