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Poem: Private Joker

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Simon Sweetman
Aug 31, 2020
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It just came out one day. “I didn’t know they piled crap that high!” The teacher had said that the building was tall and someone had asked and she had given a figure. A thousand feet in the air she said.

And my response – blurted out – aged 10 was almost as worrying as where I had got it from. We’d been in Auckland and a family friend – a precocious teen…

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