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    The World According to Bertie

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      In so many different and particular ways;

      But who amongst us can predict

      For which reasons, and along which fault lines,

      Will the heart of each of us

      Be broken? I cannot, for I am moved

      By so many different and unexpected things: by our sky,

      Which at each moment may change its mood at whim

      With clouds in such a hurry to be somewhere else;

      By our lingering haars, by our eccentric skyline,

      All crags and spires and angular promises,

      By the way we feel in Scotland, yes, simply that;

      These are the things that break my heart

      In a way for which I am never quite prepared –

      The surprises of a love affair that lasts a lifetime.

      But what breaks the heart the most, I think,

      Is the knowledge that what we have

      We all must lose; I don’t much care for denial,

      But if pressed to say goodbye, that final word

      On which even the strongest can stumble,

      I am not above pretending

      That the party continues elsewhere,

      With a guest list that’s mostly the same,

      And every bit as satisfactory;

      That what we think are ends are really adjournments,

      An entr’acte, an interval, not real goodbyes;

      And perhaps they are, dear friends, perhaps they are.

     

     

     



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