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    Flowers for Adrian

    Adrian Henri (1932-2000)

    The worn flagstones of Mount Street
    opposite the Liverpool Institute
    -- the head's office, I remember
    his cabinet full of silver trophies
    as he turned me down as a new pupil;

    30 years later, I sat on your settee
    at 21 Mount Street, a cabinet with a dead
    magpie in it, garlanded with paste jewelry
    as I drank coffee with connie onnie
    and listened to your rich Liverpool accent:

    Adrian, pop artist, pop poet,
    one of the triumvirate of Sixties
    "Liverpool Poets" Henri, McGough, Patten;
    you stayed while Roger and Brian decamped
    to "The Smoke"--but you were the first to die,

    debilitated after your stroke,
    your big body wasted but still--
    as in your poetry and your artwork,
    "I Want To Paint--" as you painted
    the football field of bouquets

    after the Hillsborough tragedy of '89:
    "Flowers for Liverpool."
    Yes! every Spring, every day,
    it's flowers for Adrian.

    Christopher T. George



    "Flowers for Liverpool" by Adrian Henri, courtesy of Andy Roberts Music Adrian Henri Tribute Site
    Christopher T. George
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    Excellent. That's really good Chris.

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    Thanks, Lindy and Kev.

    Chris

    Christopher T. George
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