Lawrence Hall
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The
Cruise of HMS Disreputable
For
myself,
I knew as soon as I could read and write
That I must be a poet.
-Sir John Betjeman
I left Mesquite and broken promises
In the after-market rear-view
mirror
Bolted to the wing of my
third-hand MG
And rattled along that magic
road to the west
Sleeping bag, Olivetti portable
Dostoyevsky, Yevtushenko, some
clothes
An honorable discharge from a dishonorable
war
A few undistinguished undergraduate
credits
And now…
I have left behind my Nobel
acceptance speech
Because the journey will have to
be enough
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