Len Webster Biography

Childhood Is

when the world to come
is an adventure to be met
...

he's there
grey hair balding
on the stage
facing the rows
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Locked in their minds,
hidden behind masks,
books carry their own lives with them,
lives in ranks,
...

he grew old
worrying about being old
not expecting to reach
this age-old problem
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Piled high among the ruins of leaving,
The shattered hopes and wasted dreams,
The age-old, dated books and wicked papers
That forced the countless ones to sweat in summer;
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