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The bridge was off –
an excuse practised daily by
cyclists with one foot on the ground,
kids with half-done homework poking out of
half-zipped daysacks,
shoppers carrying tubs of ice-cream
in flimsy Morrison’s bags
suited men in important cars en route
to important meetings,
undertakers in hearses stopping themselves
from waving to friends,
a woman saying boats should wait regardless
of tides,
but not by the bridge-keeper fed up
of repeating
We can’t predict the times when this slice of A49
will swing sideways.