who’d have thought?
a building with a tower
as tall as a lighthouse
(an Hotel de Ville really)
in Brixton
or maybe Brixton is
a foreign country
as some seem to think
too full of immigrants
and aliens they say
the lighthouse tower
has a clock telling
Greenwich Mean Time
or Euro Time perhaps?
in the spacious square outside
local Yardies sit as though
on a boulevard in Paris
transposed to
the exotic Ritzy Cinema
which is as ritzy
as its Ritzy name
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Trenchtown in Kingston Jamaica
Is referenced in
various Bob Marley songs
The Ritz Hotel in Paris
was opened in 1898
it overlooks Place Vendome
.
Jeff Cloves
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