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Poetic Licence

WHEN I write a poem, it features real lives,

Of debt-ridden students and runaway wives.

If it makes someone laugh or if it makes someone think

Then it doubly justifies paper and ink.

If life was all sanitised nature, and rhymes

About branch-hopping robins and sepia times,

Then the soul-scouring, heart-pulling, white heat of words

Would neuter itself on descriptions of birds.

But once, in the past, someone wiser than me

Said beauty is truth and in truth lies beauty.

So I speak my truth, and truth's not always pretty.

But at least I attempt to make most of it witty.

(Dedicated to Mick Snowden,

with gratitude for his spirited defence).

Updated: 14:07 Wednesday, May 07, 2003




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