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The Lesson.(Poem)
THE LESSON Round and round we circled, his hand steadying my bike-interrupted by cockerel cries and a cow bellowing for her calf. He was forty-five, I eleven. We'd done so many circuits I knew the ground by heart, every rut and puddle, every tuft of grass. Balance, it's all to do with balance, he yelled, stopping to catch his breath. We'd practised now for days. I worried he'd give up, leave me to battle alone, but we rattled on; at forty-five he ...
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