Gillian Allnutt

Mr String, considering

issue 23 June 2007

Cups in the midden.
Imagine.
Made by madmen, nineteen hundred
  of them
In the asylum’s heyday.
Idle hands, then, idle minds.
England.
Whole institution round the bend.

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