Articulation is the tongue-tied’s fighting.

 

Articulation is the tongue-tied’s fighting.
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"On Not Being Milton", line 13; from From the School of Eloquence, and Other Poems (London: Rex Collings, 1978).

 

Tony Harrison

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You are a tongue of the debased,
of the unreasonable, hating themselves
even more than they hate other nations,
a tongue of informers,
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ill with their own innocence.

 

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Well, ah tied on, percht on mah bed ah was,
Sticken' a needle in mah arm, Ah tied off,
F**ken wings burst out mah back!

 

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