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City of Culture said, ‘Look Up’:

I did, and saw the Queen,

Remembering how so many times

Beneath her I had 'been’.

I thought of all the poems

I had read upon the walls

Of the Queen Victoria Toilets

With their shining porcelain stalls.

Not careless, scribbled poems,

But mounted in their frames -

Protected by some glistening glass -

With local poets’ names.

And always the attendant,

With his bucket, mop and water:

Job finished, he returns unto his office -

Like he ought ta!

So when I 'Look Up’ at the Queen,

It’s not the Queen I see -

But well-read poems on well-washed walls -

In the place I went to xxx.