ABOUT+HIS+PERSON

CHOOSE ONE WHICH YOU THINK IS NOT EFFECTIVE AND EXPLAIN WHAT IS WRONG WITH IT.






Five pounds fifty in change, exactly, a library card on its date of expiry.

A postcard stamped, unwritten, but franked,

a pocket size diary slashed with a pencil from March twenty-fourth to the first of April.

A brace of keys for a mortise lock, an analogue watch, self winding, stopped.

A final demand in his own hand,

a rolled up note of explanation planted there like a spray carnation

but beheaded, in his fist. A shopping list.

A giveaway photograph stashed in his wallet, a keepsake banked in the heart of a locket.

no gold or silver, but crowning one finger

a ring of white unweathered skin. That was everything.

Simon Armitage

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