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on Ukraine
meanwhile at the shopspeople queuing patiently there could be children ~ n.b. Somebody chose to programme two X-22 cruise missiles to destroy a busy shopping centre in Kremenchuk. Days later, anxious relatives of the missing watch and wait.n.n.b. The picture above is attributed to Alessio Mamo / The Guardian. It is a screen-shot from The →
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on Ukraine
gone shopping, is alljust need a few things, back soonnothing important ~ CLP 28/06/2022 →
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on Ukraine
step by marching stepthree hundred thousand alertedold lines reappear ~ n.b. Who was it said, “Give peace a chance”? It was internal opposition to USA support for South Vietnam that contributed significantly to the end of that conflict. Will this only end when Russians turn on Putin? Meanwhile NATO calls its troops to “Attention!” on →
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on Ukraine
two helicopterschop, chop across the cityno longer pretence ~ n.b. Chinooks over Norwich? Where will the line be drawn? CLP 25/06/2022 →
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on the self
Are we whom we desire to beOr who as we appear to othersThe sum of their desiresThe embodiment of their hopesThe personification of their dreamsThe casket for their fears? ~ CLP 16/06/2022 →
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on Ukraine
daily more losttwo hundred dead, eight hundred maimedmedia lose interest ~ CLP 14/06/2022 →
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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 →
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