[Eyes][1st May1978]

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Eyes

And eyes that slide away in trains

Go sliding into secret worlds

Of certainty, uncertainty,

Uncertain certainty, and death.

'Oh Mummy, see the funny Man!'

See all the eyes slide outward to

The dwarf who struts the platform

With his giant carrier bag.

'Oh, see the funny Man!' The eyes

Slide backward past the laughing child

And flicker past the mother's frown and

Slide within themselves.

The doors glide shut: the train proceeds.

The child picks her nose, and stares,

And catches eyes, and smiles, and frowns

At eyes that slide away:

And sees grow up, on either side,

A hedge: of papers, magazines,

And books – the child's eyes move away –

Protecting alien worlds.

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