It's a scene heavy with steady Americanisation with a dash of transvestism and the clergy
The missiles, the dashed expectations
The stories of human life surrounded by the bomb that didn't catch on
Which culminated with a hand man saying 'Don't be silly Charles’
Now-God cosmopolitan Londoners
Members of the newly remembered Threat Generation

The Hearing-herself-coming-to-consciousness Singalong
The ‘cheer up, cheer up’ years
And this one bleak weekend
One Christmas had been their Not-have-been-doing
A place well turned