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William Bedford - The Letters
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The Letters
William Bedford
It was William who gave me your life,
your communist brother writing the truth,
his letters Yorkshire prose ‘wi’out disguise’,
typed so I’d know, ‘nowt fancy or made up’.
You lied. ‘Telled stories’. ‘Fantasised’, the sour
neighbours said, not seeing owt true or wise.
In William’s letters I heard the factory siren,
the steam pump pumping at the end of the street.
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