The ugly “clomes” of England, seem to slouch a bit,

with horrid little garages, in which a car wont fit, –

because its full of all the stuff you love but have no room

to hang, to place, or to enjoy the oppressive gathering gloom.

 

They’re built of brick and matching tile, so all may look the same,

In Close and Park and Avenue or Crescent, Mews and Lane.

They’re built this way, to house the hordes, which need a pace to be

But not much thought is given to the, esthetics, candidly.

 

Some dangerous, with no back doors, some, blind eyed to the views.

Are we wrong to think designers, haven’t any clues?

Come drink a toast to all the folk who build these awful “clomes.”

Then have the nerve to sell them, to us, as modern homes.

 
 

David Garlick, Tamworth, Coventry Canal, England, May, 1997
 

Rows of rows of rows and rows