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Keleigh Wolf - Lipstick on the 211
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The bard confirms that the right has a humour bypass, and replays the English Revolution on period instruments
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JOHN GREEN relishes a powerful and moving drama that explores the lived realities of west London’s Punjabi community
MARTIN HALL welcomes a plea for greater compassion between believer and non-believer via the framework of philosophical enquiry
Lipstick on the 211
Keleigh Wolf
You enjoy symbolism – balance this off your Barthes:
You are lipstick-tube traveller, sat atop the 211 bus
to penetrate a Waterloo sunset.
Once you’ve slipped through those sucrose oranges
slinking off into the blackness of a rioting night,
your feet will follow the historic path of the pissed-off
to heave your well-weighed, twice measured, once cut
ideology to the sky with the exuberance of a Pentecostal choir.
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