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Looking for a quote

  • 11-10-2009 4:06pm
    #1
    blubloblu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,226 ✭✭✭


    I'm racking my brains looking for this quote about how this certain author gathered little fragments of conversations and turned them into writing.

    All I know (I'm almost sure) is that the person who said it was an Irish author or poet and that it involved the word 'smithereens'.

    I know this is really vague, but maybe someone out there knows what I'm talking about. Google has failed me.

    Thanks


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  • #2
    blubloblu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,226 ✭✭✭blubloblu


    Never mind, found it:
    Roger McGough wrote:
    SMITHEREENS

    I spend my days
    Collecting smithereens.
    I find them on buses
    In department stores
    And on busy pavements.

    At restaurant tables
    I pick up the leftovers
    Of polite conversation
    At railway stations
    The tearful debris
    Of parting lovers.

    I pocket my eavesdroppings
    and store them away.
    I make things out of them.


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