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"My party piece:
I strike, then from the moment when the matchstick
conjures up its light, to when the brightness moves
beyond its means, and dies, I say the story
of my life"

— Simon Armitage

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"Think, two things on their own and both at once."

"Boy with the name and face I don't remember,
you can stop shouting now, I can still hear you."

"Here's how they rated him when the looked back:
sometimes he did this, sometimes he did that."

"All land lines are down.
Reports of mobile phones
are false. One half-excoriated Apple Mac still quotes the Dow Jones."

"That heart had been an apple once, they reckoned. Green.
They had a scheme to plant an apple there again
beginning with a pip, but he rejected it."

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