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Instead I Will Stand in the Fire

I could run round the fringes of amusing people’s lawnsI could laugh at dinner parties and be considered quite a catchI could find my way to the top of a treeTo the top of THE tree and look down at the grass-skimmersFrom my quite imposing height. I could dig in the annals of world knowledgeAnd…

Love is like the changing room in Mr Benn’s shop

Love is like the changing roomIn Mr Benn’s shop. You know, “As if by magic, the shop-keeper appeared”And let you choose the costume you desiredAnd led you to the roomWhere all roads change. And stepping out beyond the doorThe world is entirely newThe landscape and the sky transformedAnd so are you. Love is like a windowIn…

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