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Friday, 27 February 2015

The folks who live on the Hill


The folks who live on the hill

The only people who visit now are the Jehova's Witnesses
Cymdogaeth?
"Never eard of it mun,
Is that near Aberystwyth"?
This village has always been this way
strip town on the way to nowhere
retirees in white bungalows with private gardens
He shouts at her because he can't hear
She communicates with him through a plastic toy microphone because the NHS standard hearing aid is shit and whistles all the time.
The GP cannot find anything wrong.
neighbours?
live away, too young, families, busy
Hen Bobol? Ych a fi!
time to tread water
The folks who live on the hill watch
Pobol y Cwm 
and rely on their mentally ill son.
Cardiff?
That's a long, long way away.

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