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A Latchkey Girl

from Penny Novelettes by The Cleaners From Venus

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Down the stairs to the foggy river
Where the sails of the ships would shiver
in the days when the old tea clippers
sailed.
Here she'd wait for her long-gone daddy.
Few quid left in an old tin caddy
on the mantlepiece.
If her mum was running late.

Then, round the shop with
her best friend, Cerys
Up the top of Kohima Terrace
Where Mrs Khan sold
Indian ice cream
"Be indoors by nightfall.
Skinny chips and trifle."
Cos nothing stifles the dreams
of a latch-key girl

"Now don't wander far, Our Elaine
Not now the nights have drawn in
Past Halloween."
The wind calls their names
in the lane
Back of the houses
Of the boys and girls
who courted in the alley.
Better days than…..these.
better days than these."

"There'll be work soon."
say the boys in bars.
"It's all to do with these electric cars."
And when the vaccine comes,
they say we're gonna be okay.
When ships come back
to the empty dock
You can wait down there
in your nice new frock.
Because you never know,
your dad might get home anyday.

Then, round the shop with
her best friend Cerys
Up the top of Kohima Terrace
Where Mrs Khan sold
Indian ice cream
"Be indoors by nightfall
Skinny chips and trifle."
And nothing stifles the dreams
of a latch-key girl

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from Penny Novelettes, released June 25, 2021

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The Cleaners From Venus Wivenhoe, UK

The Cleaners from Venus are these four 70 year-old guys in a band who dress the same and look a bit like each other. They have loads of tawdry adventures, usually with a group of over made-up women a few years younger than themselves. As a consequence they often spend their free time in prayer and quiet contemplation trying to atone for a shared guilt which they find very difficult to process. ... more

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