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Date
Tuesday, Feb 03, 2015 7:30PM
Description
British poets and playwrights Simon Armitage and Peter Oswald read from their work.
From Simon Armitage’s You’re Beautiful
because you’re classically trained.
I’m ugly because I associate piano wire with strangulation.
You’re beautiful because you stop to read the cards in
newsagents’ windows about lost cats and missing dogs.
I’m ugly because of what I did to that jellyfish with a lolly
stick and a big stone.
You’re beautiful because for you, politeness is instinctive, not
a marketing campaign.
I’m ugly because desperation is impossible to hide.
From Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus the Corduroy Kid copyright 2013 by Simon Armitage, published by Random House. Used with permission.
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