Decay - “Self and Dream Self”
Les Murray observes, “Routines of decaying time/fade, and your waking lifegets laborious as science.” Murray conjectures that time is a decaying actuality whose freshness cannot reappear after putrefaction. The rotting of time is a causative trigger of the laboriousness of life. The decay of time is unswervingly correlated to the corrosion of existence.
“The Margin of Difference” - “The Margin of Difference”
“The Margin of Difference” embodies the variance of ideologies. The divergence contributes to the inconsistency of deductions made from unique situations. The presence of countless ideologies guarantees that sentiments of individuals will always be incongruous. Incompatible ideologies cannot yield a constant inference from a definite scenario.
Stroke - “Bottles in the Bombed City”
Murray writes, “They gave the city a stroke. Its memories are cordoned off. They could collapse on you.” The bomb is equivalent to a stroke for it renders the city inert. The city is overshadowed by the discomfiting remembrances of the bombing.
