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Should You Die First

Should You Die First by Annabelle Despard (b.1943) 'Let me at least collect your smells as specimens: your armpits, woollen sweater, fingers yellow from smoke. I'd need to take an imprint of your foot and make recordings of your laugh. These archives I shall carry into exile; my body a St Helena where ships no longer dock, a rock in the ocean, an outpost where the wind howls and polar bears beat down the door.'

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