Where does the hand become the wrist? where does the neck b… - Simon Armitage

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Where does the hand become the wrist?
where does the neck become the shoulder? The watershed
and then the weight, whatever turns up and tips us over that
razor's edge
between something and nothing, between
one and the other.

Simon Armitage

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Simon Armitage (born 26 May 1963) is an English poet, playwright and novelist from Huddersfield. A selection of his poetry forms part of the GCSE syllabus for English Literature.

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Alternative Names: Simon Robert Armitage

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Lifetimes went past. With the critical mass
of hardly more than the thought of a thought
I kept on, headlong, to vanishing point.
I looked for an end, for some dimension
to hold hard and resist. But I still exist.

Boy with the name and face I don't remember,
you can stop shouting now, I can still hear you.

All land lines are down.
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