…take a hint from me, if only once,
and when the spring tips up its early light
unhitch your conscience, friend, and ring in sick,
and close your ears to that familiar tone
that carps up without pause to make a play
upon your better side.
— Matthew Clegg

from the poem The Walking Cure by Matthew Clegg, Longbarrow Press, 2013


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