Wow powerful is mid-drifts, midriffs??or is it a play of words
Cheers P
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Sent: 21 December 2006 14:58
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Subject: Late Snap : Last Christmas
It's the waiting that kills,
a Christmas hung with
cancer decorations -
leopard spotted lungs,
swollen mid-drifts,
ghosts hiding in the marrow
of hips and ribs.
The spine readies itself
as a final playing field while we
prepare for the months ahead
and tell ourselves that death
is just another Santa Claus.
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