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Rather a Few Mistakes than Fucking Boredom

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Volume 3
Issue 2 Spring Article 6
1972
Rather a Few Mistakes than Fucking Boredom
Tom Raworth
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RATHER A FEW MISTAKES THAN FUCKING BOREDOM 
giant cameras whirring 
on the lens hood of each 
stands a rifleman 
his warning shot 
as the image approaches 
sounds in the past 
today we are scraping 
every particle from the tin 
cocoa tin telephones 
smell of steam trains 
unable to act his deformity 
sounds every where 
empty affects all thinking 
whistling sounds 
as the familiar voice sells its pretension 
(oh guide my hand 
to make these tracks 
i do not understand 
soft needle mind 
now fills all grooves 
to amplify time's wind) 
7 Tom Raworth 
University of Iowa
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