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on Ukraine
narrow strip of earthturns into no man’s landtime to draw the line? a telephone ringsagain? so soon? let me seeawkward exchanges death calls at the doorits noose swings from naked treenuclear winter who has the power? ~ n.b. It has come to this. Another conversation, the second in three days. Things are hotting up. CLP →
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on Ukraine
let us not pretenda Russian life has less worthdeaths are not victories ~ n.b. War mentality dehumanises us all. CLP 10/10/2022 →
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on love
take the freedom walkfirehoses, dogs, prison barsfour girls as angels ~ n.b. Birmingham, Alabama, once the frontline of the hate line, a victory for love. I studied at Birmingham Polytechnic in the period 1978 – 82. Coming to its namesake city has been an education. Real friendly place, as the locals might say, but do →
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on Ukraine
sat in their silosweapons of horrific strengthattention focused ~ n.b. Whatever my thoughts on this, writing them would only trivialise the seriousness of the current situation humanity now faces. →
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on Ukraine
ask “What was it for?””We are liberating landwithout people on…” ~ n.b. The first quoted line, reported in The Guardian in the UK, are words of a citizen of a town liberated from the retreating invaders. The second, (same source), from a Ukrainian soldier making his way through the ghost towns of the temporarily, but →
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on cash
I’ll buy you a mealbut I won’t just give moneyyou said you’re hungry ~ n.b. Talk me through that again. Hungry means ‘food’ right? A young man, in a desperate condition, scarred, nervous, tired and dirty asked for a dollar for food. I said I’d get him some food, (we were stood outside a hamburger →
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on Ukraine
they still have enoughcowards to push the buttonsheroes would refuse ~ n.b. Resistance to conscription in Russia is an act of great courage. For Russians facing the press gang, “Do you have a plan? Run; Hide; Fight,” Which is what public notices in US railway stations advise in case an act of domestic terrorism develops →
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on time
waving or drowningit’s hard to determine hereunfinished business ~ n.b. This marble sculpture, carved by Adelaide Johnson, was presented to the US government in 1921 by the National Women’s Party. Deliberately produced as emergent figures in knowledge that work to improve women’s rights is work in progress. The women represented here are: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, →
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