MUSIC HALL
In Aldgate we talked about the Romans
and you showed me fake coins you’d bought,
had passed off as real to kids at school
and they’d then punched you in the face.
You had a walkman in your bag held together
by silver tape, and we sat on the side of a building
with pockmarked cheeks, pinboards instead
of windows. You had a tape you’d copied from cds
and radio, you pressed the skip button four times until
The Lambeth Walk played, crackled, and you stretched
out but didn’t stand up. I tried to work up the courage
to ask you what this was, but you were going to do history
and you listened to nothing made later than 1959.
Aldgate was the most easterly gate in the wall round
the city of London, but all the times we met there
you just told me about the pump, the dead and the water
full of them. Chaucer lived in Aldgate, your parents
made you pay rent, and you helped me paint a map
on my wall, then taught me all about the music hall
and Noel Coward. I’d studied nothing but the wars
in history, but let you talk, and for your birthday
I gave you old money, lead you from Aldgate
to where the old world used to hide, stood by
while you taped up your headphones and played,
loud and tinny, the swells of one more song.
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