[Matt Q]

Hi David,

I had a similar response to Mark. I enjoyed the journey poem takes me on, but the close doesn't quite do it for me. I think maybe it's because we go from the personal history of the N, to the very public, shared history of the Beatles etc. Maybe another way of saying that is that I couldn't have written what leads up to the last stanza, but even though I wasn't alive in 1965, I could have written the last stanza, I think, if that makes sense?

Maybe, as Mark suggests, it's just the overloading of those references that's the issue. I do prefer Mark's dialled-back version works. And/or maybe there's a way to keep with the personal while referencing the Beatles.

best,

Matt