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Poems

Sometimes it’s Better to Give than to Receive

11 September 2014

1:00 PM

11 September 2014

1:00 PM

I can see your teeth clench with rage
at the gift I have pressed on you,

which manoeuvres you
into the role of grateful recipient


of my unctuously offered, expensively wrapped
and poisonously unwelcome offering.

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