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Sep 22·edited Sep 22Liked by Mike O’Brien

I really liked "Love Poem to an Inanimate Object". Nicely and gentle and then takes you by surprise at the end. Really very touching I thought.

Also I could not help but think of my favourite line from a film (In Bruges) where a guy shamefacedly apologises to his wife saying "I'm sorry I called you an inanimate object".

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Pit props creaking and screaming were at least a warning to get off the face but when the “ stronger metal ones arrived they made no warning noise, they just gave and the roof came in. Or so I am told but the memories mean something to someone I know and I like the poem. I did not offer it to 60 odd but perhaps I should have

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