Development Perspectives || THEY PAY ME FOR THE BLOODY STUFF IT WAS MY ONLY LIFELINE IN THAT WARD...

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THEY PAY ME FOR THE BLOODY STUFF IT WAS MY ONLY LIFELINE IN THAT WARD AND GOD WHAT CRAP IT WAS Author(s): BRIDGET JONES Source: Caribbean Quarterly, Vol. 26, No. 3, Development Perspectives (September, 1980), p. 52 Published by: University of the West Indies and Caribbean Quarterly Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40793420 . Accessed: 14/06/2014 12:49 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. . University of the West Indies and Caribbean Quarterly are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Caribbean Quarterly. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 62.122.77.83 on Sat, 14 Jun 2014 12:49:50 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions

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THEY PAY ME FOR THE BLOODY STUFF IT WAS MY ONLY LIFELINE IN THAT WARD AND GODWHAT CRAP IT WASAuthor(s): BRIDGET JONESSource: Caribbean Quarterly, Vol. 26, No. 3, Development Perspectives (September, 1980), p. 52Published by: University of the West Indies and Caribbean QuarterlyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40793420 .

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FACULTY OF ARTS

Sundays the place belongs to boys and mauger dogs nosing into bins or stoning fruit lifting a leg against the dented chairs marked EDUCATION

Fat girl reciting GNP and LDC Did you leave behind a greasy box of Truth?

SWITCHED TO RECORD IN THE MUSIC ROOM

Four writers (m) A public mostly (f) Letting the quartet tinkle on a theme Careful not to cough or clap before Each thought had drifted

to the floor The poses chinked like Spode A Master briefly bowed -

No-one said THEY PAY ME FOR THE BLOODY STUFF IT WAS MY ONLY LIFELINE IN THAT WARD AND GOD WHAT CRAP IT WAS

Tonight the Muse was fingered (ringlets only please) Until There being still no news of rape Politely folding paper birds We went.

BRIDGET JONES

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