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                    KATE WATERHOUSE

                                 Keep breathing

Peter Casserly

World War 1 veteran

106 not out

 

hair in thin tight

curls of sweat

where his hat sits

 

and his strawberry veined ears

on each lobe

four or five errant hairs

 

and the reporter asks:

what’s his secret

for long life?

 

and there’s a pause then

the room quiet

time

arrested

 

Keep on breathing

I suppose

says Casserly.