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clarasteam ([personal profile] clarasteam) wrote in [community profile] fan_flashworks2016-10-14 08:38 am

Original: Poem: Blackfriars Station

Title: Blackfriars Station
Fandom: Original
Length: 22
Rating: G
Content notes: no warnings apply
Author note: more of a mashup than a cento, with apologies to Apollinaire, Rich and Sondheim
Summary: too short to need one



under Blackfriars Station flows the Thames
that conversation we were always on the edge
of having
just more water under the bridge


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[adapted from Apollinaire, "Le Pont Mirabeau"; Rich, "Poem XX" from Twenty-One Love Poems; Sondheim, "Water Under The Bridge" from Singing Out Loud, a film that never got made. Jamie Parker's version is the one I know; it's not online but there are a few other versions on YouTube.]