but nothing can be taken back, not the leaves by the trees, the rain by the clouds. You … - Dean Young

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There was a process in place at that time - the Downing Street Declaration of December 1993 - which set out the terms and conditions under which people who had been involved in paramilitary activity could come into the political process.

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but nothing can be taken back, not the leaves by the trees, the rain by the clouds. You want to take back the ugly thing you said, but some shrapnel remains in the wound, some mud.

Clouds, Nothing, Rain, Taken, Trees, Ugly

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Poetry is not efficient. If you want to learn how to cook a lobster, it’s probably best not to look to poetry. But if you want to see the word lobster in all its reactant oddity, its pied beauty, as if for the first time, go to poetry. And if you want to know what it’s like to be that lobster in the pot, that’s in poetry too.

Lobster, Look, Looks, Oddities, Probably, Word

A poem should be odd as a small cast-iron platypus.

Iron, Odd, Platypus, Should, Small

There are no ordinary feelings. Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint.

Cans, Feelings, Ordinary, Spring

Just because you’ve had enough doesn’t mean you wanted too much.

Enough, Had Enough, Mean, Too Much

Go down any road far enough and you'll come to a slaughterhouse, but keep going and you'll reach the sea.

Enough, Keep, Road, Sea, Slaughterhouses