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John Stammers

PERHAPS YOU HAVE DREAMS

PERHAPS YOU HAVE DREAMS

PERHAPS YOU HAVE DREAMS

Perhaps you have dreams of a flat in Hampstead,
of a box at the Opera each weekend,
of buying candelabras and dinner parties you’d attend.

I have, for my sins, been a denizen of a West Heath pad,
seen any number of different Mimis  fall dead,
and eaten by candle-light something light on a something green bed.

Perhaps all dreams are what someone who wants you has had
and, not being able to have you, has had what you wanted instead.
John  Stammers

John Stammers

(Verenigd Koninkrijk, 1954)

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PERHAPS YOU HAVE DREAMS

Perhaps you have dreams of a flat in Hampstead,
of a box at the Opera each weekend,
of buying candelabras and dinner parties you’d attend.

I have, for my sins, been a denizen of a West Heath pad,
seen any number of different Mimis  fall dead,
and eaten by candle-light something light on a something green bed.

Perhaps all dreams are what someone who wants you has had
and, not being able to have you, has had what you wanted instead.

PERHAPS YOU HAVE DREAMS

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