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TroubadorAuthor(s): John ForbesSource: The Iowa Review, Vol. 28, No. 2 (Summer - Fall, 1998), p. 3Published by: University of IowaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20154574 .
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John Forbes (1950-1998)
TROUBADOR
where the heart burns
like an old tyre
filling the air
with flecks of carbon
& a terrible stink?
that's where I set up my altars
not realising
my personal pain was a vision of the future
where fun will consist
of smoking crack
on the edge of a garbage dump
you've just spent
15 hours rooting in
because you're in debt
for the price of a bed
& the suburbs have disappeared into the huge,
ecologically sustainable
estates of the rich
where Love has retreated
like it did before,
only to re-appear
after a couple of centuries
when its owners had got
utterly bored,
hacking each other
?& us?to bits
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