One for the pocket and the head.
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Steve Urwin
Moodswing
Talking Pen
12. Derby Crescent
Moorside
Consett
County Durham
DH8 8DZ

I have one poem in the broadsheet which fits neatly in a pocket.
And for the price of less than a pint of Deuchars! What are you waiting for?
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My poem is part of a sequence on Mary Ann Cotton:

Mary Ann Cotton 1832-1873.

Mary Ann Cotton was hung in Durham Jail in 1873. She allegedly poisoned family, including sixteen of her children.
Mary Ann Cotton Children’s Rhyme

“Mary Ann Cotton
She’s dead and she’s rotten
She lies in her bed
With her eyes wide oppen.
Sing, sing oh what can I sing?
Mary Cotton is tied up with string.
Where. Where? Up in the air
Sellin’ black puddens a penny a pair.”

“Heaven is my Home”
(Mary Ann Cotton’s final words)

Strapped, rushed
to the scaffold,
as if wearing callipers,
your legs
attacking ground,
struggling,
a final wild dance
poisoning air.

Tom Kelly

The poem will feature in my next collection HISTORY TALKS, to be published by the Red Squirrel Press
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