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The Saturday poem: My father cannot stop

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by Lavinia Greenlaw

When his mind perceives itself failing
like an engine questioning its parts
everything stops
and he sees what it will be like when everything stops.

The problem is that nothing stops.
Time does not remain
and terror prompts him to do what he can to be stopped.

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