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Patron: Andrew Motion
31 Mar:
Hannah Franks
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I'm sick of high faluting-pratidudes
from they-who-walk-the-water Holy Joes
whose pulpit voices shout our dosi-dos.
Such cloudy silver-lined Beatitudes
and narrow lane no turning attitudes
proportion them the highs and us the lows.
I've had my fill of Punch and Judy shows,
the frenzied zeal of moral rectitudes.
There's life beyond the tudes of Lat and Long,
unnetted seas where men have pearls for eyes
where love comes first and all feel they belong,
and men don't need to question their cap size.
No carrion crows to double-talk plainsong,
or leach the scarlet dawn of clouded whys.
