<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=519061" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>About His Person</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Five pounds fifty in change, exactly,<br>a library card on its date of expiry.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A postcard stamped,<br>unwritten, but franked,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">a pocket size diary slashed with a pencil<br>from March twenty-fourth to the first of April.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A brace of keys for a mortise lock,<br>an analogue watch, self winding, stopped.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A final demand<br>in his own hand,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">a rolled up note of explanation<br>planted there like a spray carnation</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but beheaded, in his fist.<br>A shopping list.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A givaway photgraph stashed in his wallet,<br>a kepsake banked in the heart of a locket.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">no gold or silver,<br>but crowning one finger</div><div style="margin:10px 0">a ring of white unweathered skin.<br>That was everything.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Simon+Armitage">Simon Armitage</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=519061" data-title="About His Person de Simon Armitage" data-description="Five pounds fifty in change, exactly, a library card on its date of expiry. A postcard stamped, unwritten, but franked, a pocket size diary slashed with a pencil from March twenty-fourth to the first of April. A brace of keys for a mortise lock..."></div> </div> </div>

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