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No death outside my immediate family has left me more bereft. No death in my lifetime has hurt poets more.

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Is there a life before death? That's chalked up
In Ballymurphy. Competence with pain,
Coherent miseries, a bite and sup,
We hug our little destiny again.


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And found myself thinking: if it were nowadays,
This is how Death would summon Everyman.


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Born: April 13, 1939
Died: August 30, 2013 (aged 74)
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