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Benjamin Zephaniah

Reggae Head

by Benjamin Zephaniah

Reggae Head

Doctors inject me
Police arrest me
Dem electric shock me
But dat nar stop me,
Oooh
Dem can't get de Reggae out me head.

Dem tek me to a station
Put me on...

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Ted Kooser

A Blind Woman

by Ted Kooser

She had turned her face up into
a rain of light, and came on smiling.

The light trickled down her forehead
and into her eyes. It ran down

into the neck of her sweatshirt
and wet the white...

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Daljit Nagra

Daljit Nagra

From time to time a poet is in residence at the Poetry Archive, talking about poetry with anyone who wants to join in the conversation.

Comic Verse

I'm troubled, as you can tell by my introduction, about comic verse. Comic verse gets bad press because rigid notions of comedy foreground throwaway poems. Surely the best comedy is when the poem surprises us into laughter rather than setting up t... >

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