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Mark Caltonhill – Things Known, November 19, 2011

Mark Caltonhill’s recent poems are all available on his blog:
www.aviewfromthehill-taiwan.blogspot.com
and earlier than that, are available in his first collection: “Malarkey’s Amusement Park”; NT$220 to Red Roomers)

Things Known

Before he sits to eat, Jesus knows he will be betrayed.
….Copernicus knows the earth is round,
….Darwin knows there is no God,
….Marx knows the working class must liberate itself,
and, eating their TV dinners ten thousand miles apart, Brezhnev and Nixon know the people will believe their lies.
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