S.E.G Curtis

Poem: ‘Colleague’

S.E.G Curtis, 15 September 1983

Our colleague, Ernest Old, expounds   To first year ‘kids’ upon Metadiegetic discourse   In Dickens and in Donne.

He thinks he’ll make a Chair before   He’s thirty-eight or so; His latest work is due out soon   On Methuen Video.

Archaic bourgeois structures must   Dictate a bourgeois text: That methodology once grasped,...

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