Nerdling Bingo

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Nerdling Bingo
Nerdling Bingo
On Helsby Hill

On Helsby Hill

—After the Count, April 2025

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David Waywell
May 04, 2025
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These winds holding you high on Helsby Hill,

This flagrant stony crop, the visible scar

Seen from as far as Warrington, Liverpool,

Down the stretch of estuary flat,

Beyond Runcorn, crushed by its cloak

Of electoral solemnity, a pall conspiratorial,

Where last the Mersey sweeps inland,

A flood on the rise, menacing redshanks

That wade in the sinking quickening

Ba…

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