Group-Analytic Contexts, Issue 80, June 2018
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72 <strong>Group</strong>-<strong>Analytic</strong> Society International - <strong>Contexts</strong><br />
Free Associative Gifts<br />
Edited by Marcus Price<br />
There are some voracious readers in our society. We are taught early<br />
on to skim read in columns and reference essays from a plethora of<br />
sources. Sometimes this resembles a competitive production line, one<br />
professor even described his PhD as a degree in photo copying. Poetry<br />
however requires that rare commodity, space.<br />
For this edition of Free Associative Gifts, I invite you to find<br />
space for single poems, ‘If Only’ by Angelika Goltz; ‘Bombs’ by<br />
Elizabeta Marcos; ‘My Dragon,’ by Josephine Canty; ‘Jonathan<br />
Oedipus James’ by Nick Barwick and ‘Hypno Biker’ by Marcus Price.<br />
By Angelika Goltz<br />
If only<br />
The sigh of regret is endless<br />
With no hope for changing anything.<br />
Do you remember?<br />
When you were ill and pleading with me<br />
To talk to you and I couldn’t,<br />
With my eyes heavy laden with anger and sleep.<br />
And coming home from far travels<br />
Sitting in our midst full of adventurous words<br />
From your last day<br />
And the bell ringing with guests I let in from outside.<br />
And you dropped<br />
And you stopped.<br />
Now I still wait for that day.<br />
And do you remember when your life broke<br />
And your heart stopped singing<br />
And I followed my passion?<br />
Now you are all here in my mind
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