I've nothing against the Queen personally. I had lunch at the Palace once upon a time.

Sonnet is about movement in a form.

I spend almost every morning with mail.

My passport's green.

One doesn't want one's identity coerced.

I'm a firm believer in learning by heart.

Yeats was 18th-century oratory, almost.

But that citizen’s perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.

Which would be better, what sticks or what falls through? Or does the choice itself create the value?

Don’t be surprised if I demur, for, be advised my passport’s green.