poor boys and the Fanshaws

white smoke and a hanging coffin

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Perhaps I'm jumping too quickly here but surely all these things are related and are impossible to perceive rightly in isolation? ...

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"poor boys"
as a friend of mine says
of the young men who frighten me
with their violence
but she sees quite otherly,
or motherly perhaps.

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(... to be continued, as they used to say of the adventures of Rockfist Rogan RAF and other such stories that I used to read in adventure comics of the nineteen-thirties ...)