Knicker Elastic & Earex

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I shouted to mother

"Do you want owt from town?"

(We were both faux northerners)

I was expecting Turkish Delight or Bonbons

or some scented candles but bugger me, a frown

"Some knicker elastic and earex"

as she pulled up her bloomers from her ankles

"There's no need to shout"

Morrisons had become the Commercial Cilcennin

and Tescos, Siop Dicky Watch

as I navigated the aisles full of Generation Z

I was expecting to be asked for ID

"Sorry Sir you are too old to be shopping in here

I think there's still an old Drapers in town"

Musty smells and doorbells

Half an ounce of this and a quarter of that

The language back then between humans was Welsh

now the machine in the corner will tell you

that

 "you've an unidentified item in the packing area" 

in robot Cymraeg.

heads lift and backs stiffen

using a language we can't understand and can't be arsed to learn.

I'd like to pour petrol on history and just let it burn.  

She may be in her nineties but she's got all her faculties

I shouted to mother

"Do you want owt from town?"