Carol Ann Duffy

Quotes

1. One saw I was alive. Loosened

   his belt. My bowels opened in a ragged gape of fear.

   Between the gap of corpses I could see a child.

   The soldiers laughed. Only a matter of days separate

   this from acts of torture now. They shot her in the eye.

2. 

   Six hours like this for a few francs.

   Belly nipple arse in the window light,

   he drains the colour from me. Further to the right,

   Madame. And do try to be still.

   I shall be represented analytically and hung

   in great museums. The bourgeoisie will coo

   at such an image of a river-whore. They call it Art.

3. 

   This is the word tightrope. Now imagine

   a man, inching across it in the space

   between our thoughts. He holds our breath.There is no word net.You want him to fall, don't you?

   I guessed as much; he teeters but succeeds.

   The word applause is written all over him.

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