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Sport 34: Winter 2006

Mr Maui among the Post-modernists

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Mr Maui among the Post-modernists

Fuck it, don't turn away. I am
as poor John Clare said,
hanging on by a hedgerow
when they put him in his place. Even now
it's not a wilful subjectivity
but sheer survival… a clinging
to what's within reach.
And so

go deconstruct yourselves, that's fine:
beautiful evasions, language games,
watching telly, all pass the time,
though lacking a certain urgency. At least
I'm in your face… an old
Aunt Sally or ventriloquist's doll
tied to a borrowed body,
alive to the voice that rattles in my head.