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Plane Spotting

By liplash

Tue, 09 Jan 2007
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I saw him
Like Keats saw that woman in Vauxhall
Pale as a jet plane
Children crying
Your father's looking at clouds she said not looking
Called away before I could catch his dark dark river eyes
Swaying slightly as he walked

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