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Show I Do Not Imagine Dylan Thomas Nempe ubi dicitur: 'Noli hoc et noli illud' . . . satis liberum demonstratur arbitrium --St. Augustine I do not imagine Dylan Thomas had other than a pencil and paper cuffs. Certainly no type-machine or the boys of summer could not have lived beyond their prime. Imagination however fails about its skeleton of supposition; a pale crab these bones remain me, become my flesh, bleached by the pink toned acid froth of jackals' breath, and changed. I still walk of course, and wear thin ties about my neck. I do not suppose the body merchants shall ever disturb me in my study, a glass of port perhaps, bearing bodies of the warm and freshly dead, -12- |