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Unread 10-02-2023, 03:17 PM
Chris O'Carroll Chris O'Carroll is offline
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The white of cheap, unwholesome Styrofoam instead of more luxurious ancient-world statue material is one of the poem's many elegant touches. Puts me in mind of these opening lines from one of Wendy Cope's Strugnell sonnets:

Not only marble, but the plastic toys
From cornflake packets will outlive this rhyme
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