<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=509225" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Identification</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">So you think its Stephen?<br>Then I'd best make sure<br>Be on the safe side as it were.<br>Ah, theres been a mistake. The hair<br>you see, its black, now Stephens fair ...<br>Whats that? The explosion?<br>Of course, burnt black. Silly of me.<br>I should have known. Then lets get on.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The face, is that the face mask?<br>that mask of charred wood<br>blistered scarred could<br>that have been a child's face?<br>The sweater, where intact, looks<br>in fact all too familiar.<br>But one must be sure.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The scoutbelt. Yes thats his.<br>I recognise the studs he hammered in<br>not a week ago. At the age<br>when boys get clothes-conscious<br>now you know. Its almost<br>certainly Stephen. But one must<br>be sure. Remove all trace of doubt.<br>Pull out every splinter of hope.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pockets. Empty the pockets.<br>Handkerchief? Could be any schoolboy's.<br>Dirty enough. Cigarettes?<br>Oh this can't be Stephen.<br>I dont allow him to smoke you see.<br>He wouldn't disobey me. Not his father.<br>But that's his penknife. Thats his alright.<br>And thats his key on the keyring <br>Gran gave him just the other night.<br>Then this must be him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I think I know what happened<br>... ... ... about the cigarettes<br>No doubt he was minding them<br>for one of the older boys.<br>Yes thats it.<br>Thats him.<br>Thats our Stephen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Roger+McGough">Roger McGough</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=509225" data-title="The Identification de Roger McGough" data-description="So you think its Stephen? Then I'd best make sure Be on the safe side as it were. Ah, theres been a mistake. The hair you see, its black, now Stephens fair ... Whats that? The explosion? Of course, burnt black. Silly of me. I should have known. Th..."></div> </div> </div>

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