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New Year 2014

The New Year promises a world where care

            Is offset by daytime TV

            More Dr Who and cookery

To fill the hours and turn us from despair,

While I look back at all my numbered verse

            So carefully catalogued; some printed

            Years ago, some newly minted;

All neatly paged, the good beside the worse,

As if the very act of printing off

            Each numbered poem, page by page,

            Good or ill, bland or sage,

Would validate their purpose well enough,

But will a finder after many years

          Sense their virtue as he reads

           Turning over all the leaves

Impressed by volume, rather than ideas? 

Brian Hick January 2014

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