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Dec 2017
"...LIFE IS A HORIZONTAL FALL..."
( Hommage à Jean Cocteau )

"Come. . !" said the poem
taking me by the hand

& leading me inside
my self

finding the right words
& binding them together

so that they
became a teardrop

that didn't...couldn't
fall

like a lie
that was the only truth.
"Life is a horizontal fall...the poet is a liar who always speaks the truth...poets don't draw...they unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, bu t. . .
differently!"

"Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk.
It is walking toward me, without hurrying...here I am trying to live, or rather,
I am trying to teach the death within me how to live."|

JEAN COCTEAU
Donall Dempsey
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Donall Dempsey  Guildford
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