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1
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Two vast and trunkless legs

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Ozymandias

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Sneer of cold command

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Ozymandias

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Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair

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Ozymandias

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level sands stretch far away

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Ozymandias

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each chartered street…mark in every face

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London

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every cry of every man / every infants cry of fear

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London

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mind-forged manacles

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London

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black’ning church appalls…runs in blood down palace walls

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London

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It’s usual home

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The Prelude

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Melted all into one track of sparkling light

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The Prelude

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As if with voluntary power instinct

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The Prelude

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My brain worked with a dim and undetermined sense

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The Prelude

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No pleasant images of trees

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The Prelude

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14
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Like living men, moved slowly through the mind

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The Prelude

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15
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Looking as if she were alive

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My Last Duchess

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‘Twas not her husband’s presence only that called that spot of joy into the Duchess’ cheek

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My Last Duchess

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17
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How she ranked my gift of nine hundred years name with anybody’s gift

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My Last Duchess

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18
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I gave commands / Then all smiles stopped together

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My Last Duchess

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19
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Though his fair daughter’s self … is my object

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My Last Duchess

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Rode the six hundred / left of six hundred / noble six hundred

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Charge of the Light Brigade

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Was there a man dismay’d

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Charge of the Light Brigade

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Cannon to the right of them … left of them … in front of them

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Charge of the Light Brigade

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Storm’d at with shot and shell

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Charge of the Light Brigade

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24
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When can their glory fade?

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Charge of the Light Brigade

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25
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Our brains ache in the merciless iced east winds that knife us

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Exposure

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26
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But nothing happens

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Exposure

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27
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Like a dull rumour of some other war

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Exposure

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28
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We only know war lasts, rain soaks and clouds sag stormy

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Exposure

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29
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Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence

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Exposure

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30
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Is it that we’re dying?

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Exposure

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31
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Slowly our ghosts drag home

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Exposure

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32
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For love of God seems dying

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Exposure

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33
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We are prepared

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Storm on the Island

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34
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You know what I mean

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Storm on the Island

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35
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Exploding comfortably down on the cliffs

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Storm on the Island

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36
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It is a huge nothing we fear

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Storm on the Island

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37
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Suddenly he awoke and was running

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Bayonet Charge

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38
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Bullets smacking the belly out of the air

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Bayonet Charge

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39
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The patriotic tear that had brimmed his eye

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Bayonet Charge

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40
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In what cold clockwork … Was he the hand pointing that second?

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Bayonet Charge

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41
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King, honour, human dignity, etcetera / Dropped like luxuries in a yelling alarm

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Bayonet Charge

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42
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His terror’s touchy dynamite

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Bayonet Charge

43
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On another occasion we get sent out / to tackle looters

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Remains

44
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Probably armed, possibly not

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Remains

45
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So all three of us open fire

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Remains

46
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I swear / (enjambment) / I see every round as it rips through his life

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Remains

47
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I see broad daylight on the other side

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Remains

48
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Tosses his guts back into his body

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Remains

49
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End of story, except not really

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Remains

50
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Then I’m home on leave. But I blink

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Remains

51
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Drink and the drugs won’t flush him out

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Remains

52
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He’s here in my head when I close my eyes / dig deep behind enemy lines

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Remains

53
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His bloody life in my bloody hands

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Remains

54
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Before you left / I pinned one onto your lapel, crumpled petals, / spasms of red

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Poppies

55
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Steeled the softening of my face

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Poppies

56
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Run my fingers through the gelled blackthorns of your hair

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Poppies

57
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A split second and you were away, intoxicated

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Poppies

58
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I went into your bedroom / released a songbird from its cage … dove flew from the pear tree

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Poppies

59
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Skirting the church yard walls

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Poppies

60
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I listened, hoping to hear your playground voice catching on the wind

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Poppies

61
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In his darkroom he is finally alone / with spools of suffering

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War Photographer

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Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh. All flesh is grass

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War Photographer

63
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His hands, which did not tremble then / but seem to now

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War Photographer

64
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Fields which don’t explode beneath the feet of running children in nightmare heat

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War Photographer

65
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Half-formed ghost

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War Photographer

66
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A hundred agonies in black-and-white / from which his editor will pick out five or six

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War Photographer

67
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The reader’s eyeballs prick with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers

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War Photographer

68
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He earns his living and they do not care

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War Photographer

69
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Paper that lets light shine through, this is what could alter things

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Tissue

70
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The kind you find in well used books, the back of the Koran

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Tissue

71
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Who died … on which sepia date

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Tissue

72
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Pages … turned transparent with attention

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Tissue

73
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If buildings were paper, I might feel their drift

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Tissue

74
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Fine slips from grocery shops

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Tissue

75
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What was paid … might fly our lives like paper kites

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Tissue

76
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Find a way to trace with grand design / (enjambment) / with living tissue

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Tissue

77
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Turned into your skin

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Tissue

78
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There once was a country … I left it as a child

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The Emigree

79
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The worst news … cannot break my original view

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The Emigree

80
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It may be sick with tyrants

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The Emigree

81
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The white streets of that city

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The Emigree

82
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As time rolls it’s tanks

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The Emigree

83
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That child’s vocabulary … opens and spills a grammar

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The Emigree

84
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It tastes of sunlight

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The Emigree

85
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They accuse me of being dark in their free city

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The Emigree

86
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My shadow falls as evidence of sunlight

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The Emigree

87
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Dem tell me / Dem tell me / Wha dem want to tell me

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Checking out me History

88
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Blind me to me own identity

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Checking out my History

89
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1066 and all dat / Dick Whittington and he cat

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Checking out me History

90
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Toissaint de beacon of de Haitian Revolution

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Checking out me History

91
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De man who discover de balloon / de cow who jump over de moon … never tell me bout Nanny de maroon

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Checking out me History

92
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Nanny / see-far woman

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Checking out me History

93
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Florence Nightingale … never tell me bout Mary Seacole

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Checking out me History

94
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A yellow sunrise to the dying

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Checking out me History

95
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I carving out me identity

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Checking out me History

96
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A shaven head / full of powerful incantations

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Kamikaze

97
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Enough fuel for a one-way journey into history

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Kamikaze

98
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Recounting it later to her children

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Kamikaze

99
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Like a huge flag … the dark shoals of fishes … swivelled towards the sun

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Kamikaze

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  • yes, grandfather’s boat -
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Kamikaze

101
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We children still chattered and laughed / till gradually we too learned to be silent

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Kamikaze

102
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This was no longer the father we loved

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Kamikaze

103
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He must have wondered / which had been the better way to die

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Kamikaze

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