Progress


 * Progress**

Men are up the pole at Ogmore-by-sea replacing five wires with one. Goodbye musical notes, sweet jamboree. Soon the birds of Ogmore will come to the new thick cable. They'll sing in monotone.

It is a poem about progress, and bemoaning the very nature of progress i.e. slow replaced with fast etc.

The wire replacement symbolises a refinement/advancement of technology, but the narrator wonders whether this also sounds the death knell for a simpler, pre-lapsarian world: "Goodbye...sweet jamboree"; hello "monotone"!