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第6章 The Butts

His suits hung in the wardrobe, broad

And short

And slightly bandy-sleeved,

Flattened back

Against themselves,

A bit stand-offish.

Stale smoke and oxter-sweat

Came at you in a stirred-up brew

When you reached in,

A whole rake of thornproof and blue serge

Swung heavily

Like waterweed disturbed. I sniffed

Tonic unfreshness,

Then delved past flap and lining

For the forbidden handfuls.

But a kind of empty-handedness

Transpired … Out of suit-cloth

Pressed against my face,

Out of those layered stuffs

That surged and gave,

Out of the cold smooth pocket-lining

Nothing but chaff cocoons,

A paperiness not known again

Until the last days came

And we must learn to reach well in beneath

Each meagre armpit

To lift and sponge him,

One on either side,

Feeling his lightness,

Having to dab and work

Closer than anybody liked

But having, for all that,

To keep working.

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