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Tomorrow I’ll Give Up

By Neil Addison

 
 
The stars
are the sky’s cutlery
 
a silver dinner set
gathered in installments
 
catering for those whose lives
are past their bedtimes
 
whose Sunday morning pews
are to be found
in the back of hackney cabs
 
who say fuck
once every ten words.
 
They say,
You didn’t come inside me, did you?
Tell me you never came inside me.
 
They say, Just give me a minute, and then I’ll go.
 

 

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