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Poetry

A Whiter Shade of Pale

by Paul Kane
April 2006, no. 280

although my eyes were open

In ’68 I sported a Panic Button on my blazer –

pushed, it read ‘Things will get worse before

they get worse.’ After the assassinations, I threw

it away. On edge, we were now living on the edge.

Across the hall, Drexler, the quiet kid from Belgium,

played Procol Harum full blast whenever

 


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