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“on another occasion”

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remains opener

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“probably armed…

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…possibly not” -repeated in remains

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” myself somebody else and somebody else”

“three of a kind”

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remains

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“I see every round as it…

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…rips through his life” - remains

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“I see broad…

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…daylight on the other side”-remains

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“sort of…

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…inside out”-remains

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“pain itself…

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…the image of agony”- remains

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“tosses his…

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…guts back into his body”- remains

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“end of story, except not really”

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remains

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“his blood shadow…

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..stays on the street and out on patrol i walk right over it week after week”- remains

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“then im home on leave…

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…but i blink”- remains

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“and the drink and the drugs…

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…wont flush him out”- remains

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“hes here in my head…

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…when i close my eyes, dug in behind enemy lines”-remains

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“not left for dead in some…

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…distant, sun-stunned, sand-smothered land or six-feet-under in desert sand”- remains

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“near to the…

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…knuckle, here and now”- remains

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“his bloody…

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…life in my bloody hands”- remains closer

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17
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“in his darkroom he is finally alone”

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war photographer opener

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18
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“with spools…

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…of suffering set out in ordered rows”-war photographer

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“as though this were a church and he a priest preparing to intone a mass. belfast. beirut. phnom penh. all flesh is grass”

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war photographer

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“he has a job to do”

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war photogrpaher

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“solutions slop in trays beneath his hands…

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…which did not tremble then though seem to now”- war photographer

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“ordinary pain which…

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…simple weather can dispel”- war photographer

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“fields which dont explode beneath the feet of running…

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…children in a nightmare heat”- war photographer

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“a stangers features faintly start to…

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…twist before his eyes, a half-formed ghost”- war photographer

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“he remembers the cries of this mans wife”

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war photographer

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“he has a job to do”

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war photographer

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“blood stained into..

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…foreign dust”- war photographer

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“a hundred…

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…agonies in black and white”- war photographer

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“the readers eyeballs prick with tears…

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…between the bath and pre-lunch beers”- war photographer

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“from the aeroplane he stays impassively at where he earns his living and they do not care”

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War photographer closer

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“suddenly he awoke and was running”

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bayonet charge opener

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“stumbling across a field of clods towards a green hedge that…

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…dazzled with rifle fire”-bayonet charge

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“bullets smacking…

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…the belly out of the air”-bayonet charge

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“he lugged a rifle…

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…numb as a smashed arm”-bayonet charge

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“the patriotic tear that had brimmed in his eye…

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…sweating like molten iron from the centre of his chest”-bayonet charge

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36
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“in bewilderment then he almost stopped”

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bayonet charge

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“in what cold clockwork of the stars and the nations was he…

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… the hand pointing that second?”- bayonet charge

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“he was running like a man who has..

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…jumped up in the dark and runs”-bayonet charge

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“listening between his footfalls…

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…for the reason of his still running”-bayonet charge

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“his foot hung like statuary in mid-stride”

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bayonet charge

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“threw up a yellow hare that…

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…rolled like a flame and crawled in a threshing circle , its mouth wide open silent, its eyes standing out”- bayonet charge

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“king, honour, human dignity, etcetera…

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…dropped like luxuries in a yelling alarm” -bayonet charge

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43
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“to get out of that blue crackling air”

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bayonet charge

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“our brains ache in the..

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…merciless iced east winds that knive us…“-exposure opener

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45
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“we keep awake because…

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…the night is silent”- exposure

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46
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“low drooping flares confuse our…

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…memory of the salient…”- exposure

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47
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“worried by…

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…silence”- exposure

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48
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“but nothing happens”

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exposure

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49
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“mad gusts…

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…tugging on the wire”- exposure

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50
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“like twitching…

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…agonies of men among its brambles”- exposure

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“northward,incessantly…

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…the flickering gunnery rumbles”- exposure

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52
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“What are we doing here?”

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exposure

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53
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“the poignant mysery of dawn…

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…begins to grow…”- exposure

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54
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“we only know…

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…war lasts, rain soaks, and clouds sag stormy.”- exposure

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“dawn massing in the east her…

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…melancholy army”- exposure

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“sudden successive strikes of bullets streak the silence”

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exposure

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57
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“less deadly than…

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…the air that shudders black with snow”- exposure

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“flowing flakes that flock”

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exposure

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“we watch them wandering..

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…up and down the wind’s nonchalance”- exposure

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“pale flakes with fingering stealth come…

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…feeling for our faces”- exposure

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“deep into grassier ditches…

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…so we drowse, sun-dozed”- exposure

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“littered with blossoms trickling where…

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…the blackbird fusses”- exposure

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63
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“-is it that we are dying?”

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exposure

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64
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“slowly our ghosts drag home”

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exposure

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65
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“shutters and doors all closed…

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…:on us the doors are closed”- exposure

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“since we believe…

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…not otherwise can kind fires burn”- exposure

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“nor ever suns smile true on..

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…child, or field, or fruit”- exposure

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“for God’s invincible spring..

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…our love is made afraid”- exposure

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“therefore,not loath, we lie out here;…

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…therefore were born”- exposure

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“for love of God seems dying”

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exposure

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“tonight this frost will fasten…

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…on this mud and us”- exposure

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“the burying-party, picks and shovels in shaking grasp, pause over…

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…half- known faces”- exposure

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“all their eyes are ice”

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exposure

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71
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“three days before armistice sunday”

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poppies opener

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“poppies had already been placed on…

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…individual war graves”-poppies

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“before you left”

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poppies

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“selotape bandaged around my hand, I rounded up as many white cat hairs as i could”

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poppies

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“crimped petals, spasms of paper red disrupting a blockade of…

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…yellow bias binding around your blazer”-poppies

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“smoothed down your shirts upturned collar”

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poppies

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“steeled the…

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…softening of my face”-poppies

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“i resisted the imulse to run my fingers through the gelled blackthorns of your hair”

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poppies

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“all my words flattened…

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…rolled, turned into felt”-poppies

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“slowly melting…

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…i was brave, as i walked with you”-poppies

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(to the front door) “ threw it open…

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…the world overflowing like a treasure chest”-poppies

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“a split second…

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…and you were away, intoxicated”-poppies

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“after you’d gone”

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poppies

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“i went into your bedroom, released..

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…a song bird from its cage”-poppies

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“I met a traveller from an antique land”

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Ozymandias opener

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“two vast and…

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…trunkless legs of stone”-Ozymandias

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“half sunk, a..

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…shattered visage lies”-Ozymandias

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“whose frown and wrinkled lip, and…

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…sneer of cold command”-Ozymandias

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“its sculptor…

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…well those passions read”-Ozymandias

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“the hand that…

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…mocked them and the heart that fed”-Ozymandias

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“my name is…

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Ozymandias, king of kings”-Ozymandias

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90
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“look on my works…

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…ye mighty and despair”-Ozymandias

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91
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“nothing besides remains”

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ozymandias

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92
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“Round the decay of that…

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…colossal wreck”-Ozymandias

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93
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“the lone and level sands stretch far away”

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Ozymandias closer

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94
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I wander through each chartered street”

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London opener

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94
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“and mark in every face i meet…

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…marks of weakness, marks of woe”-London

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“near where the…

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…chartered Thames does flow”-London

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94
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“in every cry of every man”

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London

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94
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“in every voice, in every ban”

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London

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“in every infant’s cry of fear”

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London

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“Every black’ning…

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…church appalls”-London

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“and the hapless soldiers sigh…

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…runs in blood down palace walls”-London

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“The mind-forged…

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…manacles I hear”-London

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95
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“how the chimney-sweeper’s cry”

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London

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96
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“but most through midnight streets I hear”

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London

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96
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“how the youthful…

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…harlot’s curse”-London

97
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“Blasts the new-born…

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…infant’s tear”-London

98
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“and blights with plagues the …

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…marriage hearse”-London closer

99
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“there was once a country…i left it as a child”

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Emmigree opener

100
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“my memory of it is…

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…sunlight clear”- Emigree

101
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“for it seems i never saw it in…

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…that november”- Emigree

102
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“the worst news i receive of it cannot break my original view…

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…the bright, filled paperweight”- Emigree

103
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“it may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants but…

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…i am branded by an impression of sunlight”- Emigree

104
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“the white streets of that city, the graceful slopes glow even clearer as…

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…time rolls its tanks”- Emigree

105
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“and the frontiers…

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…rise between us, close like waves”- Emigree

106
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“that child’s vocabulary I carried here like a hollow doll, opens…

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…and spills a grammar”- Emigree

107
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“soon i shall have every coloured molecule of it”

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Emigree

108
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“it may be a lie now…

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…banned by the state”- Emigree

109
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“but i cant get it off my tongue…

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…It tastes of sunlight”- Emigree

110
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“my city comes to me”

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Emigree

111
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“It lies down in front of me…

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…docile as paper”- Emigree

112
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“i comb its hair and love its shining eyes”

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Emigree

113
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“my city takes me…

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…dancing through the city of wall”- Emigree

114
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“They accuse me of…

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…absence, they circle me”- Emigree

115
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“They accuse me of being…

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…dark in their free city”- Emigree

116
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“my city hides behind me…

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…they mutter death”- Emigree

117
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“and my shadow falls as…

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…evidence of sunlight”- Emigree closer

118
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“half a league, half a league, half a league onward”

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COLB opener

119
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” the valley…

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…of death”-COLB

120
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“rode the six hundred”

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COLB

121
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“forward the…

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Light Brigade!”-COLB

122
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“charge for the…

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…guns! he said:”-COLB

123
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“was there a…

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…man dismay’d”-COLB

124
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“not tho’ the…

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solider knew”-COLB

125
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“someone had…

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…blunder’d”-COLB

126
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“theirs not to make relpy…

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…theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die:”-COLB

127
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“canon to the right of them, canon to the left of them, canon in front of them”

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COLB

128
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“volley’d and…

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…thunder’d “-COLB

129
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“storm’d at with…

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…shot and shell”-COLB

130
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“boldly they rode…

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…and well”-COLB

131
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“into the jaws..

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…of Death”-COLB

132
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“into the mouth…

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….of hell”-COLB

133
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“flash’d all their sabres…

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…bare”-COLB

134
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“flash’d as they turn’d in air”

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COLB

135
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“sabring the gunners there”

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COLB

136
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“All the world wonder’d”

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COLB

137
Q

“plunged in the….

A

…battery smoke”-COLB

138
Q

“right thro the line they broke…

A

…;cossack and russian Reel’d from the sabre-stroke”-COLB

139
Q

“shatter’d…

A

…and sunder’d”-COLB

140
Q

“but not…

A

…Not the six hundred”-COLB

141
Q

“fought so well”

A

COLB

142
Q

“Came thro’ the…

A

…jaws of death”-COLB

143
Q

“back from the…

A

…mouth of hell”-COLB

144
Q

“all that was left of them,…

A

…lef tof six hundred”-COLB

145
Q

“when can their…

A

…glory fade?”-COLB

146
Q

“honour the…

A

…charge they made!”-COLB

147
Q

“honour the…

A

…light brigade”-COLB

148
Q

Noble six hundred!

A

COLB closer

149
Q

Dem tell me
Dem tell me
Wha dem want to tell me

A

Checking out me history opener

150
Q

“bandage up me…

A

…eye with me own history”-Checking out me history

151
Q

“bind me to…

A

…me own identity”-Checking out me history

152
Q

“1066..

A

…and all dat”-Checking out me history

153
Q

“dick whittington …

A

…and he cat”-Checking out me history

154
Q

“no dem…

A

…never tell me about dat”-Checking out me history

155
Q

“de man who discovered the balloon…

A

…and de cow who jump over the moon”-Checking out me history

156
Q

“lord nelson and waterloo”

A

checking out me history

157
Q

columbus and 1492

A

checking out me history

158
Q

“dem tell me about florence nightingale and she lamp and how…

A

…robin hood used to camp”-Checking out me history

159
Q

“but dem never tell me bout Mary Seacole”

A

checking out me history

160
Q

“dem tell me what…

A

…dem want to tell me”“-Checking out me history

161
Q

“but know i checking…

A

…out me own history I carving out my own identity”-Checking out me history closer

162
Q

“one summer evening (led by her)

A

Prelude opener

163
Q
A
164
Q

“straight i…

A

…unloosed her chain”-prelude

164
Q

“It was an act of stealth and

A

…troubled pleasure”-prelude

165
Q

“small circles glittering..

A

…idly in the moonlight”-prelude

166
Q
A
167
Q

“until they melted all into one track…

A

…of sparkling light”-prelude

168
Q

“like one who rows, proud of his skill…

A

…to reach a chosen point”-prelude

169
Q

“with an unswerving line..

A

…i fixed my view upon the summit of a craggy ridge”-prelude

170
Q

“horizon’s utmost boundary”

A

prelude

171
Q

“far above was nothing but…

A

…the stars and the grey sky”-prelude

172
Q

“heaving through the water…

A

…like a swan”-prelude

173
Q

“a huge peak….

A

…black and huge”-prelude

174
Q

“as if with voluntary…

A

…power instinct , upreared its head”-prelude

175
Q
A
176
Q

“i struck…

A

…and struck again”-prelude

177
Q

” and growing still in stature the grim shape…

A

…towered up between me and the stars”-prelude

177
Q

“with purpose of its own and…

A

…measured motion like a living thing”-prelude

178
Q

“strode after me”

A

prelude

179
Q

“with trembling oars…

A

…i turned and through the silent water stole my way”-prelude

180
Q

“in grave and …

A

…serious mood”-prelude

181
Q

“for many days, my brain …

A

…worked with a dim and undetermined sense of unknown modes of being”-prelude

182
Q

“o’er my thoughts there hung a…

A

…darkness, call it solitude or blank desertion”-prelude

183
Q

“no familiar shapes remained…

A

…no pleasant images of trees, of sea or sky, no colours of green fields”-prelude

184
Q

“but huge and might forms, that do not live…

A

…like livng men”-prelude

185
Q

“moved slowly through the mind by day and were a…

A

…trouble to my dreams”-prelude closer

186
Q

“thats my last duchess painted on the wall”

A

my last duchess opener

187
Q

“looking as if…

A

…she were alive”-my last duchess

188
Q

“i call that piece…

A

…a wonder now”-my last duchess

189
Q

“fra pandolf”

A

my last duchess

190
Q

“will’t please…

A

…you sit and look at her?”-my last duchess

191
Q

“for never read strangers like you that…

A

…pictured countenance”-my last duchess

192
Q

“the depth and…

A

…passion of its earnest glance”-my last duchess

193
Q

“(since none put by the curtain…

A

…i have drawn for you, but it)”-my last duchess

194
Q

“if they durst”

A

my last duchess

195
Q

“sir, ‘twas not her husbands presence only…

A

…called that spot of joy into the Duchess’ cheek”-my last duchess

196
Q

“her mantle…

A

…laps over my lady’s wrist too much”-my last duchess

197
Q

“paint must never hope to reproduce the…

A

…faint half flush that dies along her throat”-my last duchess

198
Q

“such stuff was courtesy she thought…

A

…and cause enough for calling up that spot of joy”-my last duchess

199
Q

“she had a heart-how shall i say-?…

A

…too soon made glad, too easily impressed”-my last duchess

200
Q

“she liked what’er she looked on…

A

…and her looks went everywhere”-my last duchess

201
Q

“‘twas all one!…

A

…my favour at her breast, the dropping of the daylight in the west, the bough of cherries some officious fool broke in the orchard for her, the white mule she rode with round the terrace”-my last duchess

202
Q

“all and each would…

A

…draw from her alike apporving speech, or blush at leat.”-my last duchess

203
Q

“as if she ranked..

A

…my gift of a nine-hundred-years-old-name with anybody’s gift”-my last duchess

204
Q

“who’d stoop…

A

…to blame this sort of trifling”-my last duchess

205
Q

“if she let…

A

…herself be lessoned so”-my last duchess

205
Q

“i choose…

A

…never to stoop”-my last duchess

206
Q

“oh sir she smiled no doubt when’er i passed her;…

A

…but who passed without much the same smile?”-my last duchess

207
Q

“i gave commands;…

A

…then all smiles stopped together”-my last duchess

208
Q

“as if alive”

A

my last duchess

209
Q

“dowry will be disallowed;… though his fair daughter’s self as i avowed at starting…

A

…is my object”-my last duchess

210
Q

“notice neptune though, taming a sea horse, thought a rarity, which Claus of Innsbuck cast in bronze…

A

…for me!”-my last duchess closer

211
Q

“we are prepared:…

A

…we build our houses squat”- storm on the island opener

212
Q

“this wizened earth has never…

A

…troubled us with hay, so, as you see, there are no stacks or stooks that can be lost”- storm on the island

213
Q
A
214
Q

“nor are there trees…

A

…which might prove company”- storm on the island

215
Q

“when it blows full blast:…

A

…you know what i mean”- storm on the island

216
Q

“tragic chorus”

A

storm on the island

217
Q

“you can listen to the thing you fear…

A

…forgetting that it pummels your house too”- storm on the island

218
Q

“no trees…

A

…no natural shelter”- storm on the island

219
Q

“you might think that the sea is company…

A

…exploding comfortably down on the cliffs”- storm on the island

220
Q

“the flung spray..

A

…hits the very windows, spits like a tame cat turned savage”- storm on the island

221
Q

“we just sit tight”

A

storm on the island

222
Q

“bombarded…

A

…by the empty air”- storm on the island

223
Q

“strange…

A

…it is a huge nothing that we fear”- storm on the island closer

224
Q

“paper that lets the light shine through”

A

tissue opener

225
Q

“this is what could alter things”

A

tissue

226
Q

“paper thinned…

A

….by age or touching”-tissue

227
Q

“the kind you find in…

A

…well used books”-tissue

228
Q

“the back of the….

A

…Koran where a hand has written in the manes and histories, who was born to whom”-tissue

229
Q

“the height and weight…

A

…who died where and how, on which sepia date”-tissue

230
Q

“pages smoothed and stroked…

A

….turned transparent with attention”-tissue

231
Q

“if buildings were paper..

A

…i might feel their drift”-tissue

232
Q

“maps too. …

A

…the sun shines through their borderlines”-tissue

233
Q

“fine slips from…

A

….grocery shops”-tissue

234
Q

“might fly our lives…

A

….like paper kites”-tissue

235
Q

“luminous script”

A

tissue

236
Q

“and never…

A

…wish to build again with brick”-tissue

237
Q

“but let the daylight break through capitals and monoliths…

A

…through the shapes that prude can make”-tissue

238
Q

“with living tissue…

A

…raise a structure never meant to last”-tissue

239
Q

“of paper smoothed…

A

…and stroked and thinned to be transparent”-tissue

240
Q

“turned into your skin”

A

tissue closer

241
Q

“her father embarked at sunrise”

A

kamikaze opener

242
Q

“with a flask of water…

A

…a samurai sword in the cockpit”- kamikaze

243
Q

“a shaven head full…

A

….of powerful incantations and enough fuel for a one-way journey into history”- kamikaze

244
Q

“recounting it later to her children”

A

kamikaze

245
Q

“little fishing boats…

A

…strung out like bunting on a green-blue translucent sea”- kamikaze

246
Q

“like a huge flag…

A

…waved first one way then the other in a figure of eight”- kamikaze

247
Q

“the dark shoals of fishes flashing silver as their bellies swivelled towards then sun”

A

kamikaze

248
Q

“remembered how he and his brothers…

A

….waiting on the shore built cairns of pearl-grey pebbles”- kamikaze

249
Q

“and though he came back…

A

….my mother never spoke again in his presence”- kamikaze

249
Q

“and once a tuna…

A

…the dark prince, muscular, dangerous”- kamikaze

250
Q

” nor did she…

A

…meet his eyes”- kamikaze

251
Q

“and the neighbours too…

A

…they treated him as though he no longer existed”- kamikaze

252
Q

“only we children..

A

…still chattered and laughed”- kamikaze

253
Q

“till gradually…

A

…we too learned to be silent, to live as though he had never returned”- kamikaze

254
Q

“this was no longer the father we loved”

A

kamikaze

255
Q

“and sometimes she said…

A

…he must have wondered which had been the better way to die”- kamikaze closer

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