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    Last Day and Other Poems
    Last Day and Other Poems
    Last Day and Other Poems
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    Last Day and Other Poems

    By Samuel Ali

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    Last Day is Samuel Ali's second collection of poems examining life working in a museum as a Retail and Admissions Assistant. The poems use personal feelings as a gateway to wider issues of museum life and employment. A particular theme is the gap between our aspirations and our actions.

    Customer service

    When it’s time to pay, we stop,
    seeing ourselves
    and giving thanks to fill the gaps.

    We thank each hand
    that reaches out.

    We thank our sister
    who stitched the cloth.

    We thank our brother
    who packed and shipped it, box by box.

    And, we thank our child
    who awaits the night that follows
    that which is left unspoken
    and the echoes of our apology.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSamuel Ali
    Release dateJun 7, 2016
    ISBN9781311907141
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