If I was to write .....

Please

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Thank you

to all of you who took the trouble last year

to leave your comments and give your support....

Beseech

Plead.

Anything else would be too savage.

I taught you

or I taught myself to trick you, me.

Please

Please what?

Please who?

Not myself.

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Something's not right

I hear strange noises,

see cavernous shapes creeping round the edges of my curtains

and you betrayed me in my sleep.

Colourful language

bristling behind the black white wall,

I rein myself in because to speak would be to erupt.

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Obliteration

What more is there to say?

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Please

don't let me down.

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Are these my hands

looking so grey and lifeless?

You promised

to look after me.

But can I believe you?

I dwell on

possibility.

I wonder why we failed.

What was it that stopped us working?

What inadequacy

should I single out for criticism?