Friday, September 05, 2008

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.

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