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Absolutely Revolting
Poem

We Being Ghosts

‘We Being Ghosts’ by Clive James

by Clive James •
October 2008, no. 305

Too many of my friends are dead, and others wrecked
By various diseases of the intellect
Or failing body. How am I still upright?
And even I sleep half the day, cough half the night.

 


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