Endgame I
Not for me the long slow romantic drama of the guttering candle. The genteel fade into darkness. Nor the painful slavery to machines and medicines. I would go out like a light.
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Foreign Affairs
Sitting in the last lecture of the day, my attention wanders.
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Intimation
In the silence of the museum the skeleton’s curious jigsaw waits under glass,
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The Revolt
Another one I wrote when I was much younger.
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The Warmonger
Old piece I wrote as a preteen.
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Reaper's Dirge
'Ashes to ashes, dust to dust' a maudlin tune, carried far by the breeze, o'er the hill, through winding trees and down to the old graveyard grim. Bone white headstones covered in flowers,
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Mad Dog Revival
Every time I see you it tears me apart like a mad dog-sans-muzzle because I know that “Goodbye” has to be said, and saying “Goodbye” seems to misplace pieces of heart,
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‘Les Amoureux en Gris’
After a painting by Marc Chagall, 1959 http://www.worldgallery.co.uk/art-print/Les-Amoureux-en-Gris-161694.html
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Worn down Mum
Rat! tat! tat! … a friendly face … fresh ideas … tensions disappear!
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