Lines on the death of Andrew Motion
Our leading lights by definition should
be such because they are both good and great.
Motion wrote well enough, that's understood,
but never had the second needful trait
to grow beneath the smothering dead wood
of weddings and vacuities of state,
to keep the bard's essential hardihood
and save the Poet from the Laureate.
Rip Bulkeley
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