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The Less it Matters

from Six Inches of Water (2021) by Anthony Toner

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The Less it Matters

All of the ones I used to know from Bryson Street are gone;
some of them to old folks’ homes, just like me.
And some went out on lorries in the bad old days,
carrying all they owned across their knees.

I was a cleaning woman at Sirocco,
my wee friend Ella from Sydenham worked with me.
For thirteen years, we worked the same shift every night -
and one never asked the other home for tea.

In the home they teach us gardening, but I haven’t got the heart.
The tiny seeds fall from my shaking hands.
And I never owned a blade of grass in my life -
I’d trade every leaf to be back in Short Strand.

I dreamed the other night about wee Ella -
she was standing in the weeds where the factory used to be.
When the order book got low,
she always said we’d be the first to go.
Her eldest was eleven and mine was only nine -
I suppose her life ran parallel to mine.

My nephew comes to see me every other week -
he’s young and fast and has no gift for chatter.
He says, ‘You can’t tell where anybody’s from in here.’
And I say, ‘the closer you get to the end the less it matters.’
The closer you get to the end, the less it matters.

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from Six Inches of Water (2021), released July 19, 2021

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An independent singer songwriter and guitarist, based in Belfast.

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