When the ravages of Alzheimer’s leave an elderly woman marooned in painful memories of October 1950, her grandchild comes up with a creative strategy.
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for Tony Greenstein
The first execution of a man convicted
of using inappropriate language — far too many
exclamation marks and block capitals — to tell
what we realise is ninety-nine per cent the truth,
has been successfully carried out.
And it was surprisingly clean.
Bloodless as an office team-building session held
in a hotel specially built to mop up the overspill
from the booming funeral parlour next door.
The screeching was confined to
a few pseudonymous moderates
post-coitally whispering the hope
that this legally implemented death
not be the last of its kind.
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