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In the future, when we learn how to levitate,
No one will need the old contraptions,
The humming-machines with wings and whirring
Propellers that made marriages work.
People will have got the knack
Of holding altitude in their thoughts,
And going into it with their eyes open
Look to lower turbulence with their lashes.
But for now, deserving a good send off,
I’ll put a shoulder to the wheel
To help two people fly –
Bumping along like in the old films
With the delicate, bridal canopy,
Brought back to earth to get the hang of sky.
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Gabriel Gbadamosi is an Irish and Nigerian poet, playwright and critic. His London novel Vauxhall (Telegram, 2013) won the Tibor Jones Pageturner Prize and Best International Novel at the Sharjah Book Fair. He was AHRC Creative and Performing Arts Fellow at the Pinter Centre, Goldsmiths in European and African performance; a Judith E. Wilson Fellow for creative writing at Cambridge University; and Writer in Residence at the Manchester Royal Exchange. Plays include Stop and Search (Arcola Theatre, London), Hotel Orpheu (Schaubühne, Berlin), and for radio The Long, Hot Summer of ’76 (BBC Radio 3) which won the first Richard Imison Award. He presented BBC Radio 3’s flagship arts and ideas programme Night Waves and is the founding editor of WritersMosaic. You can visit his personal website at: www.gabrielgbadamosi.com

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