SHOOSTER
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Confidential Report

Laughlin, James
30 USD
Date
1959
Category
Poetry
Description

First British edition of the collection "Selected Poems" which was published in the United States in the same year. Published in London by Gaberbocchus, 1959. Hardcover.

Excerpt
Let's step on daddy's head shout the children my dear children as we walk in the country on a sunny summer day my shadow bobs dark on the road as we walk and they jump on its head and my love of them fills me all full of soft feelings now I duck with my head so they'll miss when they jump they screech with delight and I moan oh you're hurting you're hurting me stop they jump all the harder and love fills the whole road but I see it run on through the years and I know how some day they must jump when it won't be this shadow but really my head (as I stepped on my own father's head) it will hurt really hurt and I wonder if then I will have love enough will I have love enough when it's not just a game?
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