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Samples of poetry from NHI publications
| EPITAPH FOR THE LATE BOURGEOISIE |
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| circa: the day after tomorrow |
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if only you'd known life beyond carpets and windows. or was it your fate to sentence yourself to the dot of an i with a full stop ahead at the garden? and that of the over- looked in the street, the monster that stalked the world you neglected, eager to slake its thirst with your blood to never desist from its beastly behaviour until you'd acknowledged your creature and saviour? |
| RICHARD LIVERMORE |
| from New Hope International Vol. 17 #4 Next poem Previous poem |
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