David Lewis Paget Poems

My girl went out on a Saturday night
They said that she was alone,
I'd said, ‘We'll meet at the Cineplex, '
But the movie was postponed,
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When the Gao Gao clan lost its favourite son
In a coal disaster in the mines of Shandong,
He could not be buried in the family plot
For he died unmarried, with his lifeline cut.
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When we were numbered as old men
To peak, at three score years and ten,
God thought to have contained our pride,
As all our knowledge with us died.
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The day was bleak and the Tor was steep
As I walked up to the crest,
The tower of St. Michael's Church stood gaunt
And I stared, as if obsessed,
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It was twenty seven years since he
Had been back to the farm,
Where he'd played out in the cornfield there
With Jenny, Jim and Arn,
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When the New Year was approaching
There were planets in a line
That they said was some dark portent
Of events, long lost in time,
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I had met Hans down in Frankfurt
At the rebuilt Opera House,
We were there to hear Mendelssohn,
Not really my first choice,
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I sat all night in the charnel house
With a rag held over my face,
The smell down there was infernal
But I was guarding my wife's remains,
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From the Minappartamento
In the middle of the night,
We walked the old Piazza
Lit by just a single light,
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I woke one day to hear them say
That they'd atom bombed Iran,
There was no more threat from them, they said,
There was no more Teheran,
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