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Shop Now Open (Sonnet)
Profligate words loose
on the door of the British Library Bookshop.
‘Shop Now Open’,
a toxic affront to the pedantic poetic diaspora,
and mobiliser of minds to make the words clearer.
‘Shop Open’ or ‘Open Shop’,
an improvement, but still pointless to the picky,
who righteously say it’s stating the bleeding obvious.
‘Shop Now’ or worse, ‘Now Shop’,
are ...
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