The Initiation
But one of us didn’t
make the return trip
Didn’t finish the cruel
initiation ceremony
The thirteen year old
grey asthmatic
Lay dead on the cold
cellar’s black coke
His new scarf crossed
his still chest as crucified
By coal dust and
jeering boys baying blood
Dead Boy, Albert Finchly : Initiation ceremony of
dropping boys down coal shute
Oldham Art School
: 1957
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