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That stretch of water, it's always
There for you to cross over
To the other shore, observing
The light of cities on blackness.
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Maybe the true taste of it
is knowing the limits of your own fraudulence
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I live in the half-light
of a strange
shivering translation
where the kingdom of letters
is like the postal system
of a frozen state
and your last question
slips through like code.
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Puritan metaphor is a form of irony which has a habit of becoming literal: a dynamic millenarian rhetoric can inspire men to place actual dynamite under the status quo.
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Didn't I seize the fire of ideas and make them leap, tear, fly, sing
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Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'.
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Tom Paulin
Born:
January 25, 1949
(age 75)
Bio:
Thomas Neilson Paulin is a Northern Irish poet and critic of film, music and literature. He lives in England, where he is the Young Lecturer in English Literature at Hertford College, Oxford.
Known for:
The secret life of poems (2008)
The Day-star of Liberty (1998)
Fivemiletown (1987)
The invasion handbook (2002)
Love's Bonfire (2012)
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