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Luxury

It’s a luxury if you can say:

‘I’m not in the mood right now.

I don’t feel like it.

I don’t really fancy it today.’

 

It’s the luxury of comfort,

Of the well- appointed,

The index-linked,

The flexible sort.

 

It’s not an option

For the poor or unfulfilled,

Nor for those hunting for scraps

Or queueing the pouring rain;

Nor for the worker who drops his sandw...

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