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The Poetry of Nicholas Hancock
The Poet of Despair
Published by The British Hancock Society
with the permission of the author.


NO LAUGHING MATTER

NO LAUGHING MATTER

 

A gull listened to our poetry and prose

on its glass dome,

webs glowing orange,

tail nodding for balance,

and laughed and laughed.

When Bill began to read,

it flew away.


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