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MISSING PERSON
for my fatherI. SCENES FROM THE LIFE.
‘A child may ask when our strange epoch pases
During a history lesson, “Please sir, what's
‘An intelectual of the middle dasses?
is he a maker of ceramic pots
(Or does he choote his ing by drawing los”
‘What follows now may set him on the rail
A plain, perhaps caudionary tale
W.H. Auden, Letter to Lord ByronHouse Full I's a shocker. Keep sil.
[Blood crawls from a crack
Keep sil.
Is all happening.
Ws pear
1 your saviour.
Tes quiet mircor with hair allover
bor
toa middle lass mother,
God's gift for further reflection,
There's trouble outside:
‘crowds, stammering guns, the sea
screaming from side t side
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For The First Time On Your Screen
MISSING JACK
A slave's revolt and fal
His fist ery with his mother,
his last look with a wall —
fo round-up by sume, no ial corral —
his wit wich is friend,
his seed with fugitive bodies
ar settled 3k armchairs now
ething with other men’s children
No one believes [amp cuts here
from mother to mistress and back]