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Ode to Mortality Composed on the W90
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"Should I pay ‘handsome weeping boys’ to wipe my tears, should I"
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2017
Ode to Mortality Composed on the W90
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Author's note: Words or phrases in quotes in second last stanza are from William Wordsworth’s, ‘Intimations of Immortality’, and Frank O’Hara’s, ‘In Memory of My Feelings’. The poem also quotes from Kenneth Slessor’s ‘Country Towns’. The interview with Hera Lindsay Bird referred to was published online in i-D on 24 August 2016. The Napier Building is part of the University of Adelaide. Max Harris and Geoffrey Dutton, two of the co-founders of Angry Penguins, studied at the University of Adelaide.
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