By Order Poem by William Barton

The Council proposes to stop up and enclose
The following thoroughfares: -
Turkey Lane, Lathbury Road,
Llandaff Street, St Mary's Street,
Together with Jackson's passage
To a point eleven yards to the northeast.
Names of no fixed abode.

By order of the Council
The rotting timbers will be burned,
The walls shattered by a steel ball
Together with the eyes at the curtains
The lives ordered like tramlines,
The tears, the rich familiar faces
And the half-remembered songs they were singing.