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Brent Raycroft's avatar

Made me look up “gammon.”

Are you using the book version for the poem? (I don’t have that.) Interesting diffs from the Walrus text.

The flake I can’t swallow, maybe the pill in the sandwich is

“Iraq under Saddam”…

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Jonathan Miller's avatar

I'm using the Next Wave anthology edited by Jim Johnstone. A few poems have diffs between book and original pub.

There was also a few other words like "gammon" where I needed to consult a dictionary. That final stanza gets me though as well. It reminds me of political cartoons from the early-aughts.

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