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HAZLITT
TO TOMKINS
You
thought you knew her, ordinary as yourself,
and
well touched up by lodgers on the stairs,
or
so you said, and yet not quite a slut,
for
it was good for business. Articled
to
legal offices, all you professionals
knew
morals must be economical.
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(For full text see
the Kindle ebook The
Nature of Things (Collected Poems) by Alan Marshfield)
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