English towns and cities,

grassy, curtain twitching villages

very little play Hamlets

seem so ordered and logical

in how they are named,

how they gained their identity,

Ox-Ford, seemingly self explanatory,

Ply-mouth, a river runs through it,

Birmingham, named after a great Norman,

Wallsend-

a future prophecy in which the great

Ice Cream Wars finally came to pass.

Ian D. Hall 2017