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"Where does the hand become the wrist?
where does the neck become the shoulder? The watershed
and then the weight, whatever turns up and tips us over that
razor's edge
between something and nothing, between
one and the other."

— 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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