Sonny Boy Williamson, I'm Trying to Make London My Home
At Sonny Boy's grave:
Caetano Veloso. London, London
The Kinks, Waterloo Sunset
BBC Radio 4, Soul Music, Waterloo Sunset
The alternative view:
Ralph McTell, Streets of London
The Clash, London Calling
"I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare. No, let's say Shakespeare and Dickens, to get them in the right order," Ben Okri
"You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London", Samuel Johnson
I enjoyed what London had to offer, whenever I lived there.
The time always came when I was glad to leave - but I kept returning.
What do I miss most? London friends and The British Library.
The City
A thousand hands
wiped
upon a single towel.
A thousand smiles
wiped
into a single scowl.
A thousand voices
silenced
by one explosive vowel.
A thousand bodies
collide.
Unheard the beggar’s howl.
London, 1967.
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