Poem from Cuddon’s Cosmopolitan Review, 28 May, 1965. This was an anarchist literary review published between 1965-67. It was published from Gray’s Inn Road, London.
Better to be some scarecrow
naked on a fertile soil under
a summer sky, wishing that birds
were your friends
than this:
watching flowers die
and Autumn forever
in the city.
Bart O’Farrell
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