Gower Street Penguins

by Jon Lort Nelson

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Written for FAWM 2021. About a bookshop, not a zoo.

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Walked down Gower Street to see the Penguins
Dressed in colours, orange and green and blue,
Holding out the hope of hidden treasures

Like Sutton Hoo.

Walked down Gower Street to breathe the morning,
Stopped into the Square where time is still,

All the tulips listening to Gandhi

Like tulips will.

(Chorus 1)

And the Reading Room is closed to readers
No ethereal dome to draw the eye.
Tourists ask the way to Tutankhamen
But not the why.

Walked down Gower Street to hear the Penguins
Whispering a tongue we all once knew

I should take them home and give them shelter
Like old men do.

(Mando break)

Walked down Gower Street and felt the city
There beyond the trees and underground.
Here among the Penguins and the tulips

I will be found.

(Chorus 2-3)

And the Reading Room has no more readers,
Nothing but a locked and silent door.
Tourists buy Rosetta Stones on postcards
Who are they for?

And the Reading Room is closed to readers,
No blue desk to rest my book upon,

Tourists drink espresso in the Courtyard

And time moves on.

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released May 27, 2021
©2021 J. L. Nelson & E. J. Blomberg. BMI
All instruments and voices by J. L. Nelson.

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Songwriter and member of FAWM (February Album Writing Month).

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