From: "Peter Cudmore" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 5:43 PM
Subject: Re: Sex and the Artist
> What did you do, Robin. What did you do?
Years later, I wrote a para-take around this (no Scotsman will willingly let
an idea rust unused).
It'll be in my next book (out between Christmas and New Year, ideal for a
belated present, cheap at half the price. EnditFreePublicity).
The Devil's Bank
They give you a special sort of cheque there, that
You can only pass in certain shops. There on the
Second line: Desolation, Seduction, Murder.
There's a certain magic about some poems,
Like the first time I wrote a name above the sum:
Murder - I tucked it away in my wallet, but never
Passed it - enough to know I could.
And a whole sheaf of pay-the-bearer-on-demand
Seductions. Write in any name.
Again, unused.
Then one day I found at the back of the book -
Unusual colour, but the old familiar
Guarantee there - this one had written on it: Love.
That one I passed - it bounced.
ROBIN HAMILTON
