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Opposites are one
Updated: Jun 10, 2021

Heraclitus tells us the best of times
the worst of times are one time and the same
would tell that is
if not long dead
he would have had
a thing or to say
on the subject of this here
river come to that
I’m not quite sure
if I were Heraclitus
what it would take to get me up
the mornings of these days
the best of days
the worst of days
and all of them like Sunday
except Sunday
which is without end
suppose I’d be after
the most perfectly adequate
the unremarkablest of times
the non-worst non-best of
mustn’t grumble of
sit quietly on the riverbank
doing nothing sort of times
my love let us remain
six feet apart in a garden
bathing in the birdsong
the silence of the fog-horns
and do nothing like the gods
but gentle argument, taking care
to see no day is better and no worse
than any other
Written by JAMES MCKAY
Artwork by ALEX SURTEES