Monday, 28 August 2017

Week 149, A lump of brutalism


Moore Street substation

A colossal brutalist monument

In the style of the social housing of the era

Nobody lives here

Unlike brutalist housing now beloved of the hip, the chic

Kelvin, Park Hill, Hyde Park*

I knew those from them all

Buzzing, vibrant

But not from here

Nobody lives here

Beloved of the hip, the chic

You won't get in

Not a hum

Fulfilling its purpose

No snap, no crackle

No doorway unoccupied

Power transformed

More or less

In whose favour



* Park Hill Phase 2 as it is officially known

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