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How they fend for themselves,
the design of their wide boots.
Lifting this and that.
Lists line the bleachers crypt.
The walk from car to car
is becoming complicated,
and how the mouth cherishes.

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colin james has poems forthcoming in Calliope Nerve, Record Magazine and The Tower Journal. He works in Energy Conservation and is a great admirer of the Scottish landscape painter, John Mackenzie.