Poetry: No time - by Steven Francis

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by Steven Francis

Created on: July 22, 2011

Knock On Nine

There it stops,
hanging over the waiting stroke
but never falling,
never striking.
Locked between eight and nine
like a cobra undecided.
Undecided!
That lord between if or that,
the law of spite
a varicose lay by...

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