{"id":2448,"date":"2018-02-15T11:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/?p=2448"},"modified":"2018-02-15T11:00:12","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T11:00:12","slug":"it-is-absurd-to-suppose-that-forms-spring-from-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/a-bel-abroad\/it-is-absurd-to-suppose-that-forms-spring-from-names\/","title":{"rendered":"‘It is absurd to suppose that forms spring from names’, by Amy Allara"},"content":{"rendered":"

And what are the chances that I am\u00a0<\/span>
\n what this is\u00a0<\/span>
\n this as what I am\u00a0<\/span>
\n told to be the case\u00a0<\/span>
\n and I am the case\u00a0<\/span>
\n to be taken on and\u00a0<\/span>
\n out of the way\u00a0<\/span>
\n fix it so others can breathe\u00a0<\/span>
\n and get on with it\u00a0<\/span>
\n what are the chances\u00a0<\/span>
\n that this is what I am\u00a0<\/span>
\n and this this is not going to shift\u2014\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A four letter word\u00a0<\/span>
\n and its undoing\u00a0<\/span>
\n everyone has gone and\u00a0<\/span>
\n there is just this\u00a0<\/span>
\n and this is what I am.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

*<\/span><\/p>\n

Forms do spring from names\u00a0<\/span>
\n in or out of absurdity,<\/span><\/p>\n

and this is the loneliest form\u00a0<\/span>
\n I have ever seen.<\/p>\n

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