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Such Things

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My boyfriend was teasing me about plagarism the other day, so in case anyone was wondering, the clips of phrases in this poem are all from the short story People Don't Do Such Things by Ruth Rendell. It was page 19/20 (two sided, I used bits of each) of an old book the school library had discarded titled The Fallen Curtain.
So yeah.

Oh, and most of the pictures are from an old (also discarded) Intro to Psychology book.

Poem text only:

Real life had never been a mystery to me
I'm old fashioned, I know that.
I've read and admired what you might call beautifully pedestrian
calculated tax evasion and what not.
characters talk and so on.
All talk, never stranger than fiction
the contrast between close friends and an acquaintance

But I can't help thinking
that all the people I know--even believed
fall back on the same
excuse
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1852x2483px 3.95 MB
Make
HP
Model
HP Scanjet G3110
Date Taken
May 25, 2011, 5:27:10 PM
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TheSpeedofDark's avatar
Oh, man. I love found poems and this one is lovely. The last stanza is what really did it for me...

It's not plagarism, it's recycling. <3