What makes a place a home town?

Being born on a particular street

or hospital ward in a town is surely

just an accident of birth, like being proud

to be British, when stuck on an island

somewhere in the Atlantic makes any difference

to what you are like as a Human being,

being proud to British when pride is such a

bizarre state of mind, being proud for

choosing the exact moment in which

to escape the warm confines of the womb

when had your parents decided