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Thursday, 24 March 2022

Regrets only - Bill Nelson

You’ll take your grandfather roller skating,
watch from the edge of the rink.

For dinner you’ll make rabbit stew
and discuss the character of poultry.

Rose petals as a garnish, but also to eat.
Not many people know you can do that.

Sometimes it seems you’re the only two people
in an absorbing, character-based mystery.

You know this is all adding up to something—the roller skating, the rose petals, the rabbits.

Bill Nelson (20th century) New Zealand
From his book Memorandum of Understanding, Victoria University Press, 2016

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