Carolyn died in May
One-step away from the summer
Now her little bones
Sleep in the morgue
The little birds are singing
But there are fears for their existence
She died on the day when the UN
Published its report on the extinction of the species
Darwinian to the death, the world stumbles on
Without the wisdom of Carolyn
For extinction read eviction
For as like Carolyn, the world evicts the weak
Even though she was loud and angry
A little one like her could not survive
Against the fittest with only her wits
Or her nephew who took her home away
And cold heartedly evicted her out into the streets,
A poor old lady in her eighties
Carolyn is gone and with her I believe
The black birds carry her body to a stream
The fish will swim with her to the ocean
And the dolphins will commit her to memory
While as armed as a rainforest
The trees will scream into battle
Against the plague of men
We try to say we will see Carolyn again
in spite of science and political compliance
There will be a house readymade waiting
And a husband to welcome her home
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Carolyn Merrion was from Pennsylvania, USA she moved to England and worked as a librarian. She was also volunteer in the labour office in Bethnal Green, she loved the early Labour pioneers of the social care system.
She was the partner of Claude and they lived in a house in Derbyshire Street, Bethnal Green. Because they were not legally married her nephew was legally able to evict her from her house when Claude died and she became homeless for three or four years, she was in her eighties.
After a serious fall she disappeared into the Care Home system for eight or so years, where, because they did not know she was a vegetarian, she seemed to waste away. We found out where she was and went to visit her and sadly a week later she tragically died. She had no funeral service as far as we know and she seemed to disappear once again into the system, this time for good.
