“I'm not the first or the last
to stand on a hillock,
watching the man she married
prove to the world
he's a total, utter, absolute, Grade A pillock.”

—  Carol Ann Duffy , book The World's Wife

Source: The World's Wife

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British writer and professor of contemporary poetry 1955

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