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THE OAK:
A sad story of a mighty oak. The usual tale of tarmac taking precedence over trees. |

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RAIN:
The importance of rain. I wrote this during a very long wet spell.
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THE CAR WORKER:
I once had a very boring job which I absolutely hated and I started thinking about other people with boring jobs and how they also might have wanted to do more but never had the opportunity.
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SPIDER:
This is an attempt to pastiche D. H. Lawrence's poem "Snake" which I'd just read at the time I wrote this poem. I don't like spiders very much and I was trying to capture the same mood of horrified fascination that Lawrence described when he encountered the snake at his water trough.
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SPIDER TWO:
This is a humorous poem about spiders. It's a bit of a laugh at myself.
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