{"id":5730,"date":"2020-11-20T19:08:04","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T19:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=5730"},"modified":"2020-11-20T21:55:29","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T21:55:29","slug":"semi-detached-suburban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/20\/semi-detached-suburban\/","title":{"rendered":"Semi-Detached Suburban"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our grandparents purchased these houses (sturdy and strong<\/em>) during the inter-war years<\/p>\n

Followed by our parents in the austere grey days of the fifties<\/p>\n

By the time we came of age our houses were considered old but comfortable<\/p>\n

But we loved them without qualification even though they cried out for change<\/p>\n

The railway station was within ten minutes walk and you were safe at night every night<\/p>\n

There were tennis courts nearby and shops to satisfy every need<\/p>\n

These were our halcyon days when life was easy and the future was just another country<\/p>\n

But then life changed and we found responsibilities of our own<\/p>\n

We began planning ahead Michael and Tina and little Ben<\/p>\n

Yet our little suburban houses were no longer cheap and within our grasp<\/p>\n

So we had to rent and try to save against a moving market<\/p>\n

Prices rose faster in suburbia than elsewhere as people were attracted to their locations<\/p>\n

We moved away from our roots for many years but we were not strangers<\/p>\n

As mums and dads and our friends were still to be found within a dozen streets<\/p>\n

The tennis courts were still there but Sue Foskett-Jones no longer played Miss Iris Crawford<\/p>\n

For she was now five years dead some say of a broken heart<\/p>\n

But I knew that she had drowned in a cool mountain stream<\/p>\n

Indeed Sue does not live in avenue anymore as she retired to leafy Bournemouth some ten years ago<\/p>\n

Where she still lives with her cats and toy dogs three and four<\/p>\n

I do not recognise the shops of my past anymore<\/p>\n

It seems that newsagents and greengrocers have ceased to exist<\/p>\n

And have been replaced by estate agents and takeaways and charity shops<\/p>\n

Neither do I recognise the people passing me in the street which is a little sad<\/p>\n

And yes I still miss my small suburban home as I walk along my pebbled beach<\/p>\n

I miss the love and the familiarity of my childhood years ( it was the bubble that never burst<\/em>)<\/p>\n

But at least I was not there when the slow plague suddenly struck and changed things forever<\/p>\n

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