by Hannah Wood<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nLiskeard, do you know that you’re that Volvo estate farmer nursing middle age spread?
\nYou’re the kind that practices his Mason handshake, and thinks manure is an aphrodisiac.
\nI see you, all dressed up in your best wool suit (the one with a special hole for the annual plastic poppy),
\nsuch a pillar of the community, helping the majoress erect the Union Jack for the headline royal visits.<\/p>\n
I see you, parting your legs for the hopscotch girls dancing the flora dance up the Parade.
\nI see you, watch them get out of breath, and follow their fizzy lemonade eyes to the church where a
\nsmooth handed vicar
\n“for a special treat”
\nlets them ring the bells and feeds them pork and apple sausages.<\/p>\n
Liskeard, the cattle market man reusing the agenda for town council minutes,
\nagain and again.
\nI know you think the Tamar Bridge is the drawbridge to your kingdom of Kernow.
\nI see you, strutting home on a Friday night, Homemade Cider drenched, flopping into you moorland throne.
\nYou can’t see that behind it your daughter is having sex with her English teacher.
\nAnd you’re snoring loud fermented breaths
\nby the time your son comes up off ecstasy, and bites his boyfriend’s lip,
\nin the laughing mouth of an abandoned engine house high on the hill.
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