05 May 2026

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Early sonnets


Late sonnets

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Wittgenstein And Wittgenstein

The facts: second-richest family in the Aust
ro-Hungarian empire; eight children, seven
Grand pianos, three sons lost
To suicide, seeking an unarticulable heaven.
Ludwig lived, as gardener, don, hos
-pital porter, wrote the austere Tractatus - that lan
-guage mirrors reality, a proposition is a picture of a state
In the world, and the rest is just of waste of time.
Paul thrived, until an unspeakable loss
As a world-class concert pianist, and as a man: 
In war, his right arm, wounded, was amputat
-ed.  One-handed, he continued.  A perfect rhyme:
Ludwig tried to say what was unsayable,
Paul tried to play what was unplayable.

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02 May 2026

Discovering Skopje

The focus of identitarian antiquisation,
A dench bronze Alexander sits on a beast
Of a Leonardesque horse, a mighty creation
Designed to fake the ideal city, at least
On the southern bank, as non-London red
And dirty Chinese double-deckers course
Through spiffy office canyons, erected instead
Of bleak communist flats built perforce
Post earthquake, a moment forever caught
On the half-ruined ex-station’s clock
At 5.17am.  What suffering it wrought
I did not know, a fact that made a mock
-ery of my weekend attempt to unravel
The mysteries of this place through trivial travel.

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