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Sport 14: Autumn 1995

2. Visiting

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2. Visiting

The house is a set of gates,
people-gates
and you sit uneasy
in your chair
squashed by clothes
in a shrunken body.

You have other companions:
glass of water
and a tissue
and us
cross-legged on the floor
in the white-curtained room.

The children wander
with teddy-bear eyes
lost in the legs of visitors.

You say that word
you say Cancer
and it comes out of your mouth
like a black-glassed friend,
another companion to perch on your arm.