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REG TRUBSHAW
HEROIN By Reg Trubshaw
Heroin came in the night
Dressed as Humpty Dumpty
And singing songs about mice.
Perched at the foot of my bed
He wobbled and fell off.
My room was too small
For all the king's horses
Let alone all the king's men
So I just left him there.
Mum cleared it up
In the morning.
Reg
Trubshaw was born in Fiji in 1938, and later lived in The Maldives and
Sri Lanka before emigrating to Sunderland in 1958, where he formed the
Sunderland Poetry magazine "Whee's Keys are These?" with Carlton
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