The small hours of the city
\nby cricketjeff on May 2, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved
\nThe final drunks’ I-love-yous fade to whispers in the air
\nAnd every stag night’s star has staggered past
\nThe city streets stand silent no more echoes anywhere
\nToo bad this state of grace can never last
\nFor the fox, it’s time for breakfast there are bats you cannot see
\nAnd a little bit of London now belongs to night, and me.<\/p>\n
There are rainbows in the gutter round the image of the Moon
\nAnd the tumbleweeds of litter roll around
\nPast a pair of wings and L-plates that were new this afternoon
\nWhen tomorrow’s blushing bride was brought to ground
\nNow a cat grown fat on vermin waits for rats to find the chips
\nThat were just too much indulgence for a slurring set of lips<\/p>\n
I love walking in my city when there’s no-one else awake
\nWhen the hurly-burly bustle’s put aside
\nIt’s the gap when life and nature try to mend each sad mistake
\nThat we make as we are hurried on our ride
\nEmpty parks see owls out prowling empty skies see too few stars
\nWhile the lanes of urban wasteland cast away their curse of cars<\/p>\n
All too soon the morning chorus wakes the chaos of the day
\nStreets get swept and rubbish cleared before the start
\nBut before these boring habits come to put my dream away
\nI will breathe it in to insulate my heart
\nAnd although I love my city filled with people in a rush
\nI will always know she’s sweeter when her streets are full of hush<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The small hours of the city by cricketjeff on May 2, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The final drunks’ I-love-yous fade to whispers in the air And every stag night’s star has staggered past The city streets stand silent no more echoes anywhere Too bad this state of grace can never last For […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9742,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4577","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6931,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4577\/revisions\/6931"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}