flying flags for local rags
bringing local issues home
with court reports
and loud campaigns
for hard-knock schools
and safer streets
headline headaches on estates
hopeless councillors' mistakes
aiming not to ape the red-tops
full of showbiz gutter gossip
front-page effigies of hate.
© Paul Taylor 2005
Southwark Hour programme 3: spontaneous poem
This poem reflects on discussions about local newspapers, like Southwark News, compared with tabloids.
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