wordsout by godfrey rust
Collections of poems and readings 


BREAKING THE CHAINS

Poems & Performance Pieces.
Wordsout/Word Books 1992, ISBN 095202120X
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Adam

Mischief

Nuclear family

The place where socks go

Revised version

A modern wife

Joseph and the shepherds

The appeal

Roneo and Juliet

Eve

Miracles

Riots by Reebok, blood by Benetton

The optimist explains

The journey of the magi (cont.)

Synod

The dangers of theology

Signs

Arithmetic

The Professor at work

Philosophy

Mr Gallup reports

The man who got on at Ealing

Squiggles

Four truths

Apocalypso

The comfort of the rain

Herod's last request

Convert

Disciple

Peace

At Grasmere

Drunkard

Nappy Christmas

The housewife's evening prayer

Poem for Christmas Eve

Monster

Told you so

Vocation

Beirut

Ben Franklin

The Devil's Tinderbox

They had no credit cards

Body odour

A Laodicean estate agent writes

You can't be too careful

Notes for a biography

Dream

Aberdaron

The word's out

Home improvements

Visitor

Phantom

Runner

The Flying Professor

Carrick

First lesson

Economics

Has anybody here seen Thomas?

Mary

Breaking the chains

Teddy bears

The sailing of the ark

    Forty five sonnets of faith in postmodernity