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Where were you when you heard?
I'd just cut up my third apple at breakfast
after rejecting two rotters. iPad broke it.

Gough large, Gough communicating,
Gough reforming when reform meant 
make better. Gough striding through Athens.

Gough barely holding in check his pleasure
when people got him. Gough heading that brief 
parliament of adults who cared.

Gough's daggy silver sideburns. Gough dismissive
of conservative opponents but never sneering.
Well may we say, we've lost our champion.

bw
21.10.14