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INTERVIEW WITH A POEM: ‘Night Shift 1’ (1970)
Night-Shift 1
I get up at 4.00pm
& buy a cheese
3 tomatoes, an orange, & a tin of fruit juice
as usual;
also a paper.
I return to the kitchen
& put 2 tomatoes in the ...
doe-eyed
we’re all just kids riding bikes through
quiet neighbourhoods where all the houses
are identical and the colour of sand.
we’re all just the distant sounds of laughter,
sometimes crying.
we’re all just streetlights, we’re all trying
not to...
