"Books For All"

"Gravesend" you said.
So stick to what you know.
Not...Rochester.
Get your facts right
The 'largest second hand bookshop in England' you say
'Is aways shut'.
That's what you said.
Don't lie to me!
It's always been
OPEN to me
As open as my bag
Where one or two
Of their football books
Accidentally fall off the shelf
Directly into my bag
Whenever I visit.
Perhaps that's why
It's called 'Baggins'?
The lastion bastion
Of a CCTV-free
Non-paying consumers paradise.
An Orwellian nightmare
Elswhere. But here:
By George...
I think he would have approved.

Dulwich Poet 13th October 2014

(I borrowed a book called 'Gravesend', by Simon Smith, from the Poetry Library. They were all written by him while travelling on trains from London to Chatham. In Rochester there is a bookshop, where you can see the words at the beginning, at the back of the premises, from the railway line. When visiting a mate, in nearby Chatham, we always pop into this shop.)