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		 "I can’t look  
At the road rising on highway one  
Where the tears of the tangi go on and on  
A pagan power  
United now  
Christmas has gone  
 
But you can see  
Along the hard shoulder where the shrines should be  
Where a soul departed the flower of a memory  
An empty stretch  
Where bone and flesh  
Met with machine" 
 
---Shona Laing 
		
	
		
		
		
		
		
	
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