• My thoughts are crowded with death and it draws so oddly on the sexual that I am confused to be attracted by, in effect, my own annihilation.

    Thom Gunn: My thoughts are crowded with death and it draws so oddly on the sexual that I am confused to be attracted by, in effect, my own annihilation.
    "In Time Of Plague". Poem by Thom Gunn, www.theguardian.com. 1992.