JACK-IN-THE-BOAT
js always ready to row across the hath or lake. Wind up his. motor, and wateh him dip his blades like a true darsman-in, out, ff, outwith never-tiring enthusiasm.-On a foy-manufacturer’s package. CHILDREN, children, come and look Through the erack in the corner of the middle of the world At the clockwork man im a cardboard house. He's erying, children, crying. He's not true, really. Once he was new like you, you see Through the crack in the corner of the middle of the night, The bright blue man on the wind-up sea, Oh, he went so beautifully. He’s not true, really. ~ Oh, ervel was (he pleasureland they never should have printed On the front and the back, the funny brand of weather, For the crack in the corner of the middle of the picture Let the colours leak away. He’s not true, really. One at a time children come and look Through the crack in the corner of the middle of the day At Jack-in-the-Boat where the black leaves float: He’s dving of a broken spring.
We’s not true, really,
Allen
Curnow
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 718, 17 April 1953, Page 11
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184JACK-IN-THE-BOAT New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 718, 17 April 1953, Page 11
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