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Reid, Christopher - It's a terrifying gift being able to make you cry
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Christopher Reid – Expanded Universes
It’s a terrifying gift,
Being able to make you cry,
And when it happens
No one’s more shocked than I.
Two or three snatched words
That would seem to have chosen themselves,
Flung hastily –
And your whole being dissolves.
I have lost count of the time
I’ve seen that spasm
Destroy the loved lines of your face
Through my iconoclasm.
Like the frenzy of a Roundhead
Discharging shot
At an old, carved angel
And instantly wishing not.