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Swanport

from On the Right Side of the Earth

Matt Simpson
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had been a drag:

father-in-law (stickler

by the sound and look of him)

made allowances, thinking you

doubtless in dread

of the touch of scarlet fever

on the children but then

asserted such illusion

dispelled by your subsequent

avoidance of the place.

And to be sure you believed

it grew yearly more and more

sluggish, monotonous; did not

show yourself the model

daughter-in-law.

There was that in you

which would not compromise.

What says that character in Ibsen?

Compromise is the very devil.

But you hated whiskery Henrik

or anything commonplace.

Repulsive, uninteresting

was your typical beef

about his characters and plots.

You sat on your cold-arse monument

impervious to the fact his Nora

in A Doll's House smacked of you.

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Cutting the Clouds Towards , pp. 33
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Print publication year: 1999

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