Dark doorways draw me in,
Shadows of something or imagined catch
My attention but there is nothing there,
Almost always, there is nothing there.
One day, walking at night, I might hear
A miaow, hard shoes,
And, briefly, lit by a bedroom light:
Is that the man who used to be my father?
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77 years ago today: "Wiener Schnitzel". Alan Dent about the film "The Third Man" in the Illustrated London News (17 September 1949).
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77 years ago today. Punch, 14 September 1949.
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