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Charge of the light bregade

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Into the valley of death
Canons to the right of them . Canons to the left of them
Noble 600
rode the 600. Repeats

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Exposure

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Our brains ache
We keep awake because the night is silent - paradox
Like twitching agonies of mem
Is it that we are dying
Less deadly than the air
We turn back to pur dying

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Storm on the island

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We are prepared
It is a huge nothing that we fear
Nor are there trees
Think that the sea is company
You can listen to the thing you fear

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Bayonet charge

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Suddenly he was awoke and was running
His sweat heavy
Towards a green hege
Bullets smacking the belly out of the air
Still running
King, honour, human dignity

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Remains

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Probaly armed possibly not
Rips through his life
Walk over it week after week
His bloody life in my bloody hands
When i close my eyes

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Poppies

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Lots of verbs
Run my fingurs through your gelled hair
Smoothed doen your shirt
Listened, hoping to hear your playground voice

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War photographer

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He is finally alone
Running children in a nightmare heat
Remembers the cries
A hundred agonies in black and white
Blood stained into foreighn dust
All flesh is grass

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The emigree

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I have no passport
My city comes to me
Branded by an impression of sunlight
It may now be a lie

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9
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Kamikazee

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Journey into history
The little fishing boats
Live as though he had never returned
Was no longer the father we loved

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Ozymandias

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From an antiqued land
Kimg of kings
Colossal wreck

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London

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In every infants cry of fear
Wander throug( each chartered streets
Doen palace walls

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Prelude

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Purpose of it’s own
Strode after me
Through the water like a swan

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