- Seven Decades
At ten I read Mayakovsky had died,
learned my first word of Russian, lyublyu;
watched my English teacher poke his earwax
with a well-chewed HB and get the class
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- Strawberries
There were never strawberries
like the ones we had
that sultry afternoon
sitting on the step
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- The First Men On Mercury
â?? We come in peace from the third planet.
Would you take us to your leader?
â?? Bawr stretter! Bawr. Bawr. Stretterhawl?
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- James Macfarlan
'A man's a man for a' that' â?? how does he know?
Traipsing with his plough, the rural hero,
Swaggering down the lea-rigs, talking to mice,
Sweating his sickly verses to entice
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- One Cigarette
No smoke without you, my fire.
After you left,
your cigarette glowed on in my ashtray
and sent up a long thread of such quiet grey...