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Public Bespoke

Bill Greenwell

Published 15 April 2002

Musharraf threatened India with the atom bomb. Voice coach Philippa Davies described the effect of techniques making politicians sound "significant and secret" as "an auditory cuddle"

Let us go through the motions

we have tabled. Sign on the hard line.

You have nuclear options in your

back pocket. Take them out.

Enough is enough. Enough is more

than enough. As good as a fist.

Your opposition is as plain

as your well-formed jaw. Drop it.

At the end of every rainbow,

there is cold. You will catch it.

Confidence is tricky. Pursue it

to the very ends of the earth.

Three's company; two is a huddle.

This is an auditory cuddle.

My mouth is full of crows.

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