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You say I never write, and maybe-
MAYBE-
this is true.
So now I'm writing,
little to say I'm afraid,
but your name came up in conversation-
were your ears burning?
It gets so cold at night here
when the lord of the manor is home.
It stands to reason:
he has our money to keep him warm.
I imagine he sews it into a robe
of tens and twenties;
lying on his bed he can drift asleep
to the smell of my bankruptcy.
But I have my work to carry on.
My hands may be cold, but
all the heat I need is in my head.
There the furnace is ever-stoked
with a fuel of my own design-
it burns too fast
but it is inexhaustible.