Long Distance
--Tony Harrison
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Your bed's got two wrong sides. Your life's all grouse.
I let your phone-call take its dismal course:
Ah can't stand it no more, this empty house!
Carrots choke us wi'out your mam's white sauce!
Them sweets you brought me, you can have 'em back.
Ah'm diabetic now. Got all the facts.(The diabetes comes hard
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