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Old Age Gets Up by Ted Hughes

12/4/2008 10:55:30 PM

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Ted Hughes
(1930 - 1998 / England)

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Old Age Gets Up

Stirs its ashes and embers, its burnt sticks

An eye powdered over, half melted and solid again
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Ted Hughes

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Cheryl Moyer (7/23/2007 8:51:00 AM)
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Frightening perception of growing old, gripped by the slow erosion. Powerfully sad.

Cheryl

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