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Hylda Sims (1932-2020)
previously published in Reaching Peckham , pamphlet, narrative sequence, 1996, in What Poets Eat. Ed. Judi Benson, Foolscap 1994 performed on BBC’s The Food Programme
Down Choumert Road
there's daffs, a quid three bunches new season's spuds, thirty pence a pound six limes fifty pence. fresh crimson chillies capers, cardamoms, cumin, puzzles of ginger eddoes, mangoes, melons, ackie, chow chow pale dimpled breadfruit, manioc rough as bark
fans of skate on marble, shark fin, turbot huss, bass, goat-fish, ink-fish in a bucket, Goes well with custard, want some parsley with it ? His rubbers slub a nifty riff, Here George, he scuds a mullet; rhythm's pummelling on from Blue Beat City - Rap and Ragga, Reggae Hip-Hop, Ska; Not like the old days is it, Mrs Lady ? He winks, you won't remember, cabbage, cod on Friday, forever Crosby crooning Easter Bonnet on the wireless.
Hylda Sims
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