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on Ukraine xxvi
there is only so long left of this public examination all is organised to this end our youth bent double drowning in academic gas interpreting Dulce et Decorum est while the RAF shake the building practising manoeuvres, virtue signalling overhead ~ CLP 08/06/2022 Read more
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June
in Englandexam halls fullbiros scribblinghumidity and heatsomeone decreed the tie must be wornthey will hear nothing of the larkcatch not the cuckoo callingcannot simmer in the slow burn to Solsticethe ticking clockninety minutes of mathematicsa pair of blackbirds flush out the jayheron stalking by the weirdeep dwellers snapping at surface midgesreeds revelling with rainbow trouttwo Read more
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on sound
I couldn’t hear youthere was too much background noisespouting from my mouth ~ n.b. “Say something once, why say it again?” sang David Byrne with Talking Heads. A young couple were arguing on the train yesterday, not loudly, nor demonstratively. “I don’t want an argument.” he said. “You’re not listening to me.” She said. He Read more
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