o: <h1><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><b>WhiteDwarfs</b><o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">This is forthose people who disappear<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">for those whodescend into the cold<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">and make theirroom a fridge for superman<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">who exhaustcostume and bone that could perform flight,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">who shave theirmoral so raw<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">they can tearthemselves through the eye of a needle<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">this is forthose people<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">that hover andhover<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">and die in theether peripheries<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">There is myfear<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">of no words of<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">falling withoutwords<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">over and overof <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">mouthing thesilence<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Why do I lovemost among my heroes those<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">who sail tothat perfect edge<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">where there isno social fuel<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Release ofsandbags<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">to understandtheir altitude –<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> thatsilence of the third cross<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> thirdman hung so high and lonely<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> wedon’t hear him say<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> sayhis pain, say his unbrotherhood<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> Whathas he to do with the smell of ladies<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> canthey eat off his skeleton of pain?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">The Gurkas inMalaya<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">cut the tonguesof mules<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">so they weresilent beasts of burden<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">in enemyterritories<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">after suchcruelty what could they speak of anyway?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">And DasheillHammett in success<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">suffered conversationand moved<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">to the perfectwhite between the words<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">This white thatcan grow<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">is fridge, bed<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">is an egg –most beautiful<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">when unbroken,where<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">what we cannotsee is growing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">in all thecolours we cannot see<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">there are thoseburned out stars<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">who implodeinto silence<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">after paradingin the sky</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem;">after suchchoreography what would they speak of anyway?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>Michael Ondaatje</b></font></p>