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A. B. Jackson
A London Wedding
A London Wedding
A London Wedding
The groom is anybody’s guess. He goescasual-incognito, this year’s look.
His backpack’s full of perfumes, and a book.
A party popper’s pulled and he explodes.
Relatives are thrilled to bits. It shows:
confetti, carbon-based; a rush of blood.
Bodies lie divided under God.
The groom enjoys a honeymoon of groans.
© 2006, A. B. Jackson
Publisher: The Times Literary Supplement,
Publisher: The Times Literary Supplement,
A. B. Jackson
(United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1965)
A.B. (Andrew Buchanan) Jackson was born in 1965 in Glasgow and raised in the north-west of England. After secondary school in Fife, he studied English Literature at Edinburgh University, where he shared a flat with fellow student Roddy Lumsden. Together they founded and edited the undergraduate poetry magazine Fox and ran the Edinburgh University Poetry Society between 1986 and 1987.
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A London Wedding
The groom is anybody’s guess. He goescasual-incognito, this year’s look.
His backpack’s full of perfumes, and a book.
A party popper’s pulled and he explodes.
Relatives are thrilled to bits. It shows:
confetti, carbon-based; a rush of blood.
Bodies lie divided under God.
The groom enjoys a honeymoon of groans.
A London Wedding
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