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ALL MRS ADAMS' HAVISHAM NOTES & REVISION HELP

HAVISHAM
Beloved sweetheart bastard. Not a day since then

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 I haven’t wished him dead. Prayed for it

 so hard I’ve dark green pebbles for eyes,

 ropes on the back of my hands I could strangle with.

 Spinster. I stink and remember. Whole days

 in bed cawing Nooooo at the wall; the dress

 yellowing, trembling if I open the wardrobe;

 the slewed mirror, full-length, her, myself, who did this

 to me? Puce curses that are sounds not words.

 Some nights better, the lost body over me,

 my fluent tongue in its mouth in its ear

 then down till I suddenly bite awake. Love’s

hate behind a white veil; a red balloon bursting

 in my face. Bang. I stabbed at a wedding-cake.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Give me a male corpse for a long slow honeymoon.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Don’t think it’s only the heart that b-b-b-breaks.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16pt;"> Copyright Carol Ann Duffy, 1993 [|LISTEN TO A HAVISHAM PODCAST]











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