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Hurt once and for all into silence.

A long pain ending without a song to prove it.

Who could stand beside you so close to Eden,

when you glinted in every eye the held-high razor,

shivering every ram and son?

And now the silent looney-bin,

where the shadows live in the rafters

like day-weary bats,

until the turning mind, a radar signal,

lures them to exaggerate mountain-size

on the white stone wall

your tiny limp.

How can I leave you in such a house?

Are there no more saints and wizards

to praise their ways with pupils,

no more evil to stun with the slap

of a wet red tongue?

Did you confuse the Messiah in a mirror

and rest because he had finally come?

Let me cry Help beside you, Teacher.

I have entered under this dark roof

as fearlessly as an honoured son

enters his father’s house.

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