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Mrs Fixit upbraids the Poet


“But what of the Human Spirit?” she protests,

taxing him with at best the sin of omission,

at worst with Getting It All Wrong,

“What about Piglet? And Nelson Mandela?”

So they have to drink coffee

and compare the relative merits of Zeus

and Widow Twankey. And then,

since it is Valentine’s Night,

they go to bed and make spectacular love,