"There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public. There are worse things than these miniature betrayals, committed or endured or suspected; there are worse things than not being able to sleep for thinking about them. It is 5 a.m. All the worse things come stalking in and stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse."

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Source : Fleur Adcock (2000). “Poems 1960-2000”, Bloodaxe Books Limited

Fleur Adcock

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