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WHAT HORRORS ABOUT

 

I still think of boyhood bookshops, the time I took

with their piles of exchange mags, much thumbed, on the floor.

Cowboy, Romance… but the stuff I sought was Horror.

I’ve often asked myself why, and again discourse

on just what it was that made an alarming book.

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(For full text see the Kindle ebook The Nature of Things (Collected Poems) by Alan Marshfield)

  

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