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Apartment X, a rich man’s gift to his daughter,  

who thinks ‘coffee and croissant on the balcony’  

a lovely prospect, watching the Thames wind its way; 

how a name might travel, like ‘Aragon’; 

three provinces in Spain, 

ill-fated, long-suffering Catherine, 

or Louis Aragon, French novelist and poet 

who became a Communist, 

a word not evident in the Berkeley Homes brochure, 

covers shiny as new money. 

Catherine’s neck was saved 

but there are still executions; 

scaffolding on site at Aragon Tower, Deptford, 

the council tenants despatched, clutching copies  

of Lewisham Council’s Regeneration Strategy, 

hardly visible from the several penthouses.