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A poem

Trappists, reciting each his

Solitary office from

A damp station;

Executioners,

Patient and precise as death, axing

The lay gudgeon;

Black queued mandarins, sloping

Off in a bundle of long

Bones, huffily

Assaulting airways to your

High-rise slums, where you turn

Starling vulgar

Commuters from the M6,

Family men and harassed

Mothers of five

On a limited budget,

With House of Commons manners;

Remote celibate in the

Grey and white of your order,

Fisher of fish,

Or parent, slave to instinct

And procreation; are you

Such artists at

Living that both your selves can

Co-exist comfortably

Uncompromised?

By UA Fanthorpe

From Queueing for the Sun 2003. Peterloo Poets Calstock, Cornwall.

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