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Reality verses the Mechanical Nursemaid

There is nothing more than composing

sonnets and blank verse,

like Larkin and Heaney never willingly leaving home,

seeing character and landscape grow:

no television, by view of partition

a barbed wire sandwich

a calculated drip feed reaction.

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