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london.

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london fog, you crush my dreams
      replace them with the density of reality
     and all that it forgives.
london fog, you picked me clean
            loaded the barrel with the cigarette smoke
                 of your dearly departed, fired into my belly
            I felt the embers of your legions burn into me
              watched the crown cascade through history
       you fooled the roses, torched the throne
        gave way to the spirits of the sky and let loose
         your unforgivable torments to the peasants and pious below.
london fog, I forgive you
          placed in your towers, lucidly dreaming of peace
         it had no place in King Henry's courts,
                    will it come to fruition this millennia?
                     will the escapades and smoke clear
                in time for you to drift out to sea?

london fog, I love you
          you birthed the dark alleys, swept the ports
           calloused young men's hands, broke fair maiden's hearts
    trenched favored captains in your islands, set loose the waves of discord
       all in the name of your lover, the sea.
              you disregard land-lovers with an easy conscious
      because you know what their ends hold:
   
                 the billows of the waves
                 the barnacles on the bilge
                 the cold that creeps up my sleeves
                 the london fog.
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NemoX7's avatar
Ooooh, gave me an old Victorian London feel. I can almost imagine the rattle of the hansom wheels clattering on straw strewn streets, beggars by gaslit lamps, young boys selling "The Strand" and the fog darting this way and that with the looming dome of St Pauls in the background. :la: