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In this episode, John talks about the poem that has been a friend to him – 'The Death by Heroin of Sid Vicious' by Paul Durcan.
John visited The Poetry Exchange in London. He is in conversation with The Poetry Exchange team members, Michael Shaeffer and Fiona Bennett.
John is a highly acclaimed film, TV and Theatre Director. Find out more about John and his work here:
www.casarotto.co.uk/clients/john-crowley
Fiona reads the gift reading of 'The Death by Heroin of Sid Vicious'.
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The Death by Heroin of Sid Vicious
by Paul Durcan
There – but for the clutch of luck – go I.
At daybreak – in the arctic fog of a February daybreak –
Shoulder-length helmets in the watchtowers of the concentration camp
Caught me out in the intersecting arcs of the swirling searchlights.
There were at least a zillion of us caught out there –
Like ladybirds under a boulder –
But under the microscope each of us was unique,
Unique and we broke for cover, crazily breasting
The barbed wire and some of us made it
To the forest edge, but many of us did not
Make it, although their unborn children did –
Such as you whom the camp commandant branded
Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols. Jesus, break his fall:
There – but for the clutch of luck – go we all.
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