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How To Decipher The Divide.

On my second day in Bootle, an old man,

withered looking but comfortable in his stride

and his shoulders resolutely swaggering

towards recruitment, came up to me as I breathed in

a different town’s air and asked from underneath

his floating pencil gray moustache, which side

of the divide

did I belong?

 

“Divide”? I enquired, naturally thinking red or blue

or what was it she said, they also play up the road don’t they

in a different colour, or of course this could be a Wirral