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Quote	Poem
“When his death touched the trigger”	‘The Shot’
“In that flash / You saw your whole life”	‘The Shot’
“Trajectory perfect”	‘The Shot’
“the cheek-scar, / Where you seemed to have side-swiped concrete”	‘The Shot’
“Bending so briefly at your open coffin”	‘The Blue Flannel Suit’
“Now I see, I saw, sitting, the lonely / Girl who was going to die”	‘The Blue Flannel Suit’
“I am stilled / Permanently now, permanently / Bending so briefly at your open coffin”	‘The Blue Flannel Suit’
“I did not / Know I had made and fitted a door / Opening downwards into your Daddy’s grave”	‘The Table’
“Rough-cut for coffin timber. Coffin elm”	‘The Table’
“I did not / Know I had made and fitted a door / Opening downwards into your Daddy’s grave”	‘The Table’
“he took you / Down through the elm door”	‘The Table’
“You saw right down to the Goya funeral grin / And recognized it”	‘You Hated Spain’

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