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    [year] => 2021
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    [title] => A London Lads Life
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    [synopsis] => This book does exactly as it says on the can, intrigues and tantalizes. Divided into subjects, categories and issues on pretty much every damn subject. A nonstop run of verse from beginning to end. Candid verse spewed like torpedo vomit in a true word raconteur's tradition.

If you were born and grew up in a particular city, and in an ever-changing world: witnessed decades of successive governments ignoring you and failing miserably.

These poems depict those decades. In particular wasting millions in tax payer's money? Squandering billions on dumped stupid go nowhere projects. Extreme Inequality, seeing corruption, injustices, and crime rates soaring with no accountability.

Less than five percent of burglary and robberies are solved in the UK. That's one in ten.

A quality of life deteriorating before your eyes? You would be joining millions of frustrated others, all over the world in thinking this. If you fall into this category, you are going to love this book. Like me, you will find yourself reminiscing, comparing and relating to what was, and what is now.

My particular city is London.

This induced me to comprise a comprehensive book of poems and comparisons depicting and voicing my opinions regarding the drastic changes in a city that I once loved. These poems speak volumes and really hit home.

Home being the operative word. Being a property entrepreneur; I have had so many. I target just a few in the nostalgia section of this book.

Many candid and personal, some jovial, some poignant, some for the good, some for the bad, and some for the ugly. As I write, the world in in the grip of an invisible enemy; a serious COVID-19 pandemic. The USA along with the rest of the world are experiencing devastation, with hundreds of thousands of jobless and homeless citizens turning to alcohol and drugs. Suffering unbearable hardships, extreme poverty and mental illness.

Before you get stuck into this book, it is essential that certain critical facts that all humans should acknowledge, accept and absorb. It is vital to go way back in time, here's the basics.

Evolution dictates our primal animal instincts, and our existence is and always will be work in progress. But we are not getting it right. Our traits, our actions and decisions we make are born of a subconscious animalistic fear. Fear being the basic primal instinct, the bedrock of life; a survival mechanism in our D N A. The entire living organisms that exist on our wonderous planet. Us humans and the animal kingdom are made up of particles of the universe. Reliant on each other and evolving into predators and prey and succumbing to vulnerability.

Certain desires embedded in our genetic makeup and DNA are fundamentally flawed. Such as curiosity, Jealousy, resentment, revenge, greed, anger, love and sexual desires in order to multiply. These human emotions can explode and create havoc. When weakness and vulnerability is shown, in anyway shape or form. Instead of empathy and aid, the exact opposite takes place.

There will always be one ruthless demonic rogue to capitalise on weakness. Whether associated with land or country. (A coup d etat) Male or female, young or old. Paedophiles are a case in point.

Given enough power arrogant individuals have evolved into Despots and dictators going to any lengths to obtain more power and kudos.

We are curious, naïve, gullible, easily led, indeed, (need to be led.) History tells us of the thousands of ancient heroic leaders battling wars over territory and distant lands.

Land being the operative word, it has always been the land owners that hold the power and wealth controlling peasants and surfs, and more poignant; in order to form armies.
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