Was It for This


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 Dedication
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 Was It for This
 Happy Birthday
 Acknowledgements
 Also by Hannah Sullivan
 A Note About the Author
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 for my mother
 
 
 
 TENANTS
 
 
 … but as
 Fishes glide, leaving no print where they pass,
 Nor making sound …
 
 
 
 
 14 June 2017
 00:54 BST
 
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 To think of an event, a thing that happened,
 To understand 
 
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 Meanwhile, the smell of acetone in public places
 And terror in the eyes of a police horse,