Marina in poetry
Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 4:37 pm
Hi,
I came across this poem in a book about Liverpool life.
The author Ged Fagan (Liverpool , In a city Living) details the systematic rape (in my opinion) of the inner city during the postwar period by city planners and also fond reminicences of those times.
As a small note, there is a picture in the book of the cobbled street where my dad's minor suffered from trunnionitis in 1969 and lost its nearside wheel , one of my earliest memories as a snotty nosed kid. In my dads defence however the Marina wasn't on sale then so you can forgive my old man who redeemed himself a decade later by buying a shiny new LE, eventually bedecking it with an Ital front spoiler with a HUGE orange stripe across its lower width just to match the side stripes and MGb patterned seats!
Ive only detailed the first verse and copyright is respectfully given to the author;
'' Hillman Avengers,Minxs and Imps,
A Morris Marina, so old that it limps,
Triumph Toledos, Dolomites and Heraalds,
A Seventy four N reg to drive at your Peril. ''
I guess he must've spotted my K reg Marina as I drove about Liverpool when I'd just passed my test!
Happy New Year,
Tony
I came across this poem in a book about Liverpool life.
The author Ged Fagan (Liverpool , In a city Living) details the systematic rape (in my opinion) of the inner city during the postwar period by city planners and also fond reminicences of those times.
As a small note, there is a picture in the book of the cobbled street where my dad's minor suffered from trunnionitis in 1969 and lost its nearside wheel , one of my earliest memories as a snotty nosed kid. In my dads defence however the Marina wasn't on sale then so you can forgive my old man who redeemed himself a decade later by buying a shiny new LE, eventually bedecking it with an Ital front spoiler with a HUGE orange stripe across its lower width just to match the side stripes and MGb patterned seats!
Ive only detailed the first verse and copyright is respectfully given to the author;
'' Hillman Avengers,Minxs and Imps,
A Morris Marina, so old that it limps,
Triumph Toledos, Dolomites and Heraalds,
A Seventy four N reg to drive at your Peril. ''
I guess he must've spotted my K reg Marina as I drove about Liverpool when I'd just passed my test!
Happy New Year,
Tony
