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Mood of nostalgia/reflection
1. Havisham
  1. "I stink and remember"
  2. "Who did this to me?"
  3. "Not a day since then I haven't wished him dead"
  4. "Till suddenly I bite awake"
2. Mrs Midas
  1. "It was then that I started to scream. He sank to his knees"
  2. "At first I visited, odd times"
  3. "That was the last straw"
3. Originally
  1. "I remember my tongue shedding its skin like a snake"
  2. "All childhood is an emigration
  3. "Stirred like a loose tooth"
  4. "Your accent wrong"
4. Anne Hathaway
  1. "Some nights I dreamed he'd written me"
  2. "My lover's words were shooting stars"
  3. "In the other bed, the best, our guests dozed on"
  4. "His touch a verb dancing in the centre of a noun"
Tone of Anger/Bitterness/Sadness
1. Valentine
  1. "It will blind you with tears like a lover"
  2. "It will make your reflection a wobbling photo of grief"
  3. "Its scent will cling to your fingers, cling to your knife"
  4. "Its fierce kiss will stay on your lips, possessive and faithful"
2. War Photographer
  1. "Sunday's supplement"
  2. "With spools of suffering set out in ordered rows"
  3. "To fields which don't explode..."
  4. "The reader's eyeballs prick"
3. Havisham
  1. "I stabbed at a wedding cake"
  2. "Love's hate behind a white veil"
  3. "Prayed for it so hard I've had dark green pebbles for eyes"
  4. "Puce curses that are sounds not words"
4. Mrs Midas
  1. "But now I feared his honeyed embrace"
  2. "Its amber eyes holding pupils like flies"
  3. "I miss most, even now..."
  4. "Pure selfishness"

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	Created by Melissa Kerr over 8 years ago