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Wednesday 8 November 2023

Who goes there

Leaf on prickly stalk of bramble

Who would not be hurt by your grazing

Or by the loud voice of that bully of a teacher

That show off, full of arrogance and contempt


Willows sway in all those wild winds

Of slaughter

Show your flex to sustain your summer

Give your shape its beauty, fair play freely


Tarmac trodden with heavy boots

Braziers, flames, smoke, aromatic moisture

Laid down over lost pastures, flattened

And trimmed with a massive machine


The freeway, the autobahn

The rhetoric and the rhetorical question

Listen, can you hear the tough guys

Hear them, they are all alone



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