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Final Hour

Ladies and gentlemen,We have suspended all airings, recordings and viewingson all channels to bring you this urgent broadcast: Four minutes ago, the enemy launched a strike –A volley of weapons of mass destruction –against our people. We have launched a retaliatory strike against the enemy,as well as a series of countermeasures in hopes ofneutralising the …

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Release at Sunset’s Edge

Standing by waters still as these A duck quacks and the cool breeze Gently grazes ‘cross my face As sunset rays grace the place, A burden once oft heavy, now with shoulders light, A feel of relief and perhaps delight My heart relieved for mine and mine sake Past moments, I shall forever forsake.

Eternal Chains

Traveller, you walk with chains on your feet and your heart weighs a thousand suns, You’re cold and have nothing to eat, Black smoke fills your struggling lungs. Outwards you’re happy when seen, Calm, solid, determined too, Yet haunts you, the shadow of what could’ve been, Stuck in a pen you always have around you.

Ghosts

There are faces in the mirrorjust behind the bathroom door,the faces are all yours,but these, you have not seen before. The first ghost stares at you –the paler in the mix –the sum of a decision you madeback in two thousand and six. The second ghost who lulls sombregazes right at your eye,on its forehead …

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Owens

 The Yanks came from across the Atlantic and I could swear they’d given their boys a fix, For how did a black man – Herr Owens from Oakville, Alabama, Who raced dogs for cents and tricks, Score gold after gold, in Berlin in 1936?! They called him the “Buckeye Bullet” in Ohio, you see, And …

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I Saw a Lady

I saw a lady today,A fine lady clad in green-blue,I saw her and knew not what to say,Only that she reminded me of you. I saw a lady today,And behind her a sky blue,She had a smile that made one’s day –a smile that reminds me of you. I saw a lady today,And in her …

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An Apple

She says I’m an apple to her:she loves the feel of my skin,the vibrace of my colour,the delightful taste within. That I grace her when I am in her arms.She holds me close and says, I’ll say,a taste of you keeps the doctor away!”

Ypres

If you are reading this letter,Know that I am already long gone,For to my breathing comrade I gave these words,and asked him to send them home,Know that I gave my allbut when the moment came at last,In a trench I did falland could not make it past,When the order came at half past five,Amid the …

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