two flowers 1 Her excellency the High Commissioner picked dandelions for her silver vase not knowing they were only weeds knowing only they were strong, slender. sun-golden. We sneered 2 in the black muzzle of my Mauser she planted her red rose saying "peace, peace" Nor knowing my gun is my manhood knowing only her soft superficial certainties. I shot her (inspired by two newsitems. the first after the first Indian high commissioner had arrived, the second on a university campus in USA in 1968}
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