Sport 23: Spring 1999
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1. If
If you see a tree in the cemetery,
no question but it's a yew.
So Ifs, on the edge of Caen, gives Yews—
like ‘yous’, the word we used
as children to count
true friends. And then
a bus goes by (bus is bus
unless car, a bus that travels far)
flashing Ifs—the end of the line
where there is no doubt.
2. But
No question but it's a goal.
Or a department store
of large surface,
a wide floor—
canapés sail across it. Like
the boat—but a tub—
the Duc de Normandie,
that made a u-turn at
the English coast
and carried me back to you.