Attempting to Defy

A convocation of blind sparrows
crouch in the main gallery like giant
Epstein sculptures, reminding you

how boring England is by comparison.
Several rooms far above, some designed
by artists: light, materials, the odour of youth.

This is not one of the best places to take
children, but there is nobody to tell us to
get lost except us, and we don’t count.

-- Tom Craze

Forget the bejewelled moppets of the Premier League
Let the Children Feel the Force
Winehouse sees husband denied bail