Why indeed?

... Why ban poems about knives?
(Hat tip, Maxine Clarke, who writes that she had read Duffy's poems before her daughter Cathy began to study them: "They are explicit, but I find them powerful; they resonate.")

I had quite a knife collection when I was a kid - and could throw them pretty well. I had guns, too. And look what I a fine upstanding citizen I turned out to be.