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I am  writer, because that's what I do.

No matter whether you read this or not

I write on and trust that it is true.

I am a writer,

But all the words on earth aren't worth a jot,

Be they Milton, Wordsworth or Shakespeare,

Duffy, Johnson, Heaney, Elliott,

Until they lift the heart above what's mere

Normality, above the seething rot

And stench of how things may appear.

I am a writer.

Brian Hick October 2013

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