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To Beauty Again
Beauty’s gone out of fashion, like pyjamas,
but it must still be there
behind the retail-park or football-ground.
It’s just that now, with trips to the Bahamas,
jogging and keeping skinny, folks have found
different ideas to wear.
To be honest, I still fall for primroses
and most of spring, but cars
piled in the breakers have as great a charm
as any bright new plant that decomposes.
Scrap-yards and grave-yards have the same sad calm,
like empty public-bars.
But what’s the point? The objection still applies
now, as it did for Keats.
We find ourselves most passionately aware
falling in love with anything that dies.
The best defence is either not to care
or praise these ugly streets.
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