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Put it this way
Time is a multitude
And  she far more than one
TOPHET
('Tophet: an ancient place of human sacrifice near Jerusalem; later a place of refuse disposal.' Dict.)
I was prepared to sacrifice
Myself - or all else but myself.
Too harsh. I almost sacrificed
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Myself. I would have done. One has
To be much surer time allows
Such liberty of gesture or
That the gesture is not just
In essence someone else's. I
Saved myself to do some further good
I say some further good. The tide of faith
Dawdled. What did I do unto myself?
Acidhead mind and flesh corrode. Too harsh.
I am the refuse tip of all I was.
Boot of Revelations
Letting their origins down
with mooed music
The cattle milled and sledded
in the clapped out square
Boddihair buttressed
limbs rebuddied
Metamorphic sleep-awake-asleep
perception flickers
As he disintegrates
himself
into their programmed
Brainclumps with unbuckled words
Bending the ticked time-factory
Each circadian partment stuffed
with old writs
As words begin disimigrate
upripe postures fold
into a sea of herdivores
under the diss o' loot ness
words began
What they heard they herded
churned through mass orifices
fossils mouth-vented
EIGHTY
Under the scoured thatch
Locked beams bar our disorder
Once maybe I had religion
Suffering had a future
Now I need only a shawl
I'm a crab's claw
A broken wing blunted instrument
Won't work or play
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His veins are dried string
Not even knotted
His thoughts keep kicking
Every day further to the well
This place will never be home
Problems keep their old address
Now I'm just an old householder
And the house holds me.
TWENTY
The days burn like a hairdryer Rattle
Out loud as Friday's money
Suddenly see problems like opening twots
Needing my thrust
Events make tyres strike concrete
Slicing me forward every direction
Negotiable Nights are jackpots
Giving back and front
Style does it all style
The city's open to the nomad
Everywhere's home and clear eyes
Never questioned
Friends wink like traffic lights
I can do more than yesterday
Motorcameleon-like
I'm change itself
DEATH OF A PHILOSOPHER
Oh, no, he went well at last - more his old self,
And yet as ifsure at last ... Perhaps the Way smoothes
For the Gooduns ... Cryptic as ever his last words were -
Surprised -  So
Soon
Sooth
Soothes ...
CHARTERIS
He was a self-imagined man
Old when still young
But there's always
Time and everywhere
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Recurrently eternally
A hive of selves
He left in the air
Skeleton structures
Of thought
And thoughtlessness
To some of us
They are unfinished
Palaces to some
Slums of nothingness
An ambiguity
Haunted him haunts
All men clarity
Has animal traits
The bombs were only
In his head
On his memorial tree
A joker wrote
KEEP VIOLENCE IN THE MIND
WHERE IT BELONGS
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The Best SF Stories of Brian
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Comic Inferno Last Orders
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Anthologies and Series (as
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Best Fantasy Stories Introducing Science Fiction The Penguin Science Fiction
Omnibus Space Opera Space Odysseys Evil Earths
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with Harry HarrisonNebula Award Stories 2 Farewell Fantastic Venus ! The Year's Best Science
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(annually from 1968)The Astounding-Analog Reader
(2 volumes)Decade 19405 Decade 19505Decade 19605 The SF Master Series
Brian Aldiss
Barefoot in the Head
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Published by Granada Publishing Limited in Panther Books 1979
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First published by Faber & Faber Ltd 1969 Copyright © Brian W. Aldiss 1969
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