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Writing from the stemistry lab

Self-portrait of a surplus egg collector

by Catherine Graham

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Poor little beggars, they remind me of me:
School sports day, circa '69,

nobody wanted me on their team.
Don't feel sad, reader,

I was crap at sport, so I wasn't disappointed:
But these little beggars . . . Optimistic

about becoming a poet,
an accountant or a sculptor, or all three.