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I have to confess that I felt rather proud
of the simple device of my suffocating cloud.
The Prospero of poisons, the Faustus of the front,
bringing mental magic to modern armament.

— Tony Harrison

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The title character of the poem was responsible for developing chlorine gas as a weapon of war.

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Articulation is the tongue-tied’s fighting.

The ones we choose to love become our anchor
when the hawser of the blood-tie's hacked, or frays.

This pen's all I have of magic wand.

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