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Iove shall not,
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And death shall have
no dominion."
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Dylan Thomas.
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We met in a bar
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where he was
giving a reading.
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I didn't know
it was "Poets' Night."
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That morning I had
my first assignment,
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taking pictures
of a bloody corpse
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the police had fished
out of the Charles.
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Perfect preparation
for meeting me.
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I think what Thomas
liked about me
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was that I'd never
heard of him.
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Rich, they look fantastic.
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Had you really
never heard of him?
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No, I was more of a visual
person, I suppose.
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I didn't read poetry.
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Anyway, I went on
about my work
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never asking Thomas
a thing,
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telling him about
this photograph I'd taken once.
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It was a father pulling
his son from an icy pond.
:19:57
In the picture, you see the man
lying down on the ice,
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his hands
clasping the boy's,
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and both of them
have their eyes closed.
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And then Thomas said
the most remarkable thing.
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Do you remember?
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No.
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Come on.
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Look,
I don't remember.
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He said that my work and his
are very much the same...
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we're both trying
to stop time.
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- I never said that.
- That's exactly what you said.
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- It's pretentious shit.
- No it's not. It's lovely.
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If I did say that,
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I was just trying
to get into your pants.
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I wonder what moment
it was I might have altered.
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What movement, left or right,
might have changed fate.
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Perhaps I could have done it
with a word... a thought.