Steep stone steps climbthrough the trees above the empty theatre –giving it wings Exit stage left,leaving the naked woman on the lawnto answer questions about the plot Her lips are sealedbut on the clifftopanother figure standswhispering in the wind,and her story…
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The Daily Telegraph, which is not one of the more empty-headed of newspapers, reported on the “terrorist” taxi bombing Liverpool under the rather surprising heading: “Suicide bomber was a Christian convert”. If he was, someone did not do a very good…
For a change, this is a poem not written by me. It is a short one by Raymond Carver (1938-88). And did you get whatYou wanted from this life, even so?I did.And what did you want?To call myself beloved, to…
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