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Killing
Time (The Millennium Poem)
Author:
Simon Armitage
Publisher:
Faber and Faber Ltd
Published: 06 December 1999
ISBN: 0571203604
Price: £6.99
Cover: Paperback
Pages: 52pp.
Status: In Print
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Killing Time. In this 1000-line poem, the manic countdown
to 1000 years of history reaches its climax, with the last 12
months spooling past like newsreel. It is a vision full of humorous
and bleaker possibilities, which ranges forward and back through
time and space, mixing and matching as it goes.
- A man strolls past the town hall
- wearing a sandwich-board for a coat,
- and it ain't for the next closing-down sale,
- or the time of the next coach,
- and it ain't for the price of a fake tan
- or bringing the government down,
- or happy hour, or two-for-one,
- or the circus coming to town,
- or a secret truth that God knows,
- or the end of the world being nigh,
- it says NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS
- but it don't say why.
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