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on time
more shooting in schoolSt. Louis gathers more ghostssoulless at its heart ~ n.b. It was just four weeks ago I walked past Central Visual & Performing Arts High School on Arsenal Street. It was a beautiful, sunny morning. Pass any school in the USA and it sets one thinking about intruder prevention, safety drills, panic →
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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
no news from Khersonmeans no news of any hueblackout to blackhole ~ CLP 20/10/2022 →
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on Ukraine
somewhere someone sitsgame controller at readydistant drones despatched ~ n.b. Hey, Moscow! Why sacrifice the blood of your sons when you can just murder people in their beds in Kyiv remotely? How low can a human being go? CLP 17/10/2022 →
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on Ukraine
original sinreimagined in slaughterfear of losing face ~ n.b. Somehow the self-importance of one man perpetuates the maiming and murder of civilians, deaths of combatants from both sides and the pointless destruction of villages, towns and cities. CLP 11/10/2022 →
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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 streets
empty eyes, blackenedfingernails, frayed cuffs, alonethrong gets down and dirty ~ n.b. Nashville, Tennessee, ‘The Recording Capital of the World, (as I heard a man in a check shirt, jeans, cowboy boots and a cowboy hat label the place to two men in check shirts, jeans, cowboy boots and cowboy hats), is a busy place →
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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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