Manchester but “it’s a mean old town to live in by yourself.” Wonderfully gritty and real, this ancient second city once had an economic school of thought named after it, via England’s Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. Poet Carole Houlston in “Manchester”: “Lowry-loving/Boundry shoving/Cottonmilled…/Bomb-rocked/Unbroken…”
Mean Town Blues