When Shakespeare came to Barking and Dagenham to be interviewed (by me)
by Eithne Cullen
He stepped off the train and flourished his travel card,
The world’s your Oyster! He told the railway guard.
Down past the fish shop’s icy-cold display, he thought
to tell the fishmonger: Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.
And though he’d never even heard of a steak bake,
he strolled past ...