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A Potato Clock

Ambiguity is a lot of fun and also, I think, one of life’s most marvellous and dangerous mysteries. I was recently at a reading by the Liverpool performance poet Roger McGough and was reminded of one of my favourite poems by him as a child. ‘Potato Clock’ (I don’t have an exact reference, but you [...]