Night
loud in my head. I ran to the Spinney in my prize shoes,
up Churchill Way, up Nelson Drive, over pink pavements
that girls chalked on, in a blue evening; and I stamped
the pawprints of badgers and skunks in the mud. My
country.
I want it back. The captain. The one with all the
answers. Bzz.
My name was in red on Lucille Green's jotter. I smiled
as wide as a child who went missing on the way home
from school. The keeny. I say to my stale wife
Six hits by Dusty Springfield. I say to my boss A pint!
How can we know the dancer from the dance? Nobody.
My thick kids wince. Name the prime Minister of Rhodesia.
My country. How many florins in a pound?
This is an  intertextual reference  to WB Yeats' poem  Among School Children , where this is the last line of Yeats' poem. Yeats poses questions about the relationship between artist and their work; between public persona and inner emotions and memory. Most relevant is in the unstable nature of the speaker’s relationship with the world around him. 
 The speaker answers his own  rhetorical question  with a sharp, ironically self-aware “Nobody” — the technique known as  hypallage .
The Captain of the 1964 Top of the Form Team