#Three books of poetry by Brian Patten: Vanishing Trick, The Irrelevant
#Song and Grave Gossip
#
#These poems were typed onto the machine by a combination of students
#doing an "Introduction to Computing" course in 1986 and 1987, and by
#Elaine Vail in the Dept. Electronics and Computer Science, all at the
#University of Southampton. THEY HAVE NOT BEEN THOROUGHLY CHECKED
#AGAINST THE ORIGINALS (original editions of books by Allen and Unwin.
#Allen and Unwin have NOT given permission for this work; I wrote to
#them but they didnt reply
#
#Markup is COCOA - B for book, P for poem
# one poem never made it, a long one - it is starred in the <P title
#
#Sebastian Rahtz January 6 1987
#Computer Science
#University
#Southampton S09 5NH
#0703 559122 ext 2435
#e-mail spqr@uk.ac.soton.cm
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<B Vanishing Trick>
<P A Love Poem>
----- whose body has opened
Night after night
Harbouring loneliness,
Cancelling the doubts
Of which I am made,
N . . .
