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Guernsey Literary Festival

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Specsavers

Supported by

Guernsey Arts

Scott Elder, France

Poems on the Buses Exhibition

The Dark

At six I played the rock it was hard to keep still my nose itched the next year it was a tree my cue was the wind I shook all over and released a leaf (there were lots of other trees) at eight I wanted to be a drag- onfly but someone else got the part I could have easily done the sky or sea but no one asked and now I play alone and become the dark