Welsh Journals

BETTER THIS WAY 200 Aspirins. Injection. Charge me. Two lovers, oil and ivy covered hood. Disease, luminal. Quietly nurse, please Softly lead the cancer victims from the town. Yellow. Yes of course. The children first Yes, nurse, I understand. Better this way." Better than Beachy head, bat jets In Paddington hotels. The Gas instructor Will arrange all on a prouder scale With coloured uniforms and bands And that man over there shoot Him Why ? 0 Danzig it's a long way. Better this way, no inquests for a million Men drilled shall neatly wheel and die Chamberlain arranges (by consultation) all All this leaving fields to tractor girls, Men, Whitehall, it's all arranged. The harvest's in, the gums are sweetly cleaned, Dun things on concrete, puff spores fern held, The order MEN Better than selecting Single targets, 0 better this way, balanced, Than the jeered verdict While disturbed." AINSLIE Ellis. TO KEIDRYCH RHYS I HAVE seen, the finger of God Pale whirling with fury Pointing the sea. I have seen, the same biblical finger Draw water to columns Sterner than He, Not Pagan-fluted Or Rome's cardinal order But vaporous, smote hollow A supernatural reed. I have seen, light birds sailing A ploughed field in wine