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on Ukraine
step lightly returningsons of Russia sleep nextpeople of Kherson ~ n.b. What a criminal waste of human life. 260 days of war, for what, Moscow? CLP 10/11/2022 →
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on Ukraine
lines on maps redrawnbodies buried as they falllife’s fragility ~ n.b. Does it matter where you are lain once slain if borders are marked out in your blood? CLP 06/11/2022 →
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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
evacuate callcruel deceit of remainingvictims who’ll be blamed ~ n.b. A call to Moscow to help evacuate Donbas as Ukraine’s army advances, means the area will only be lived in by people who wanted to stay in their homes, but they risk being called Ukrainian patriots and therefore “enemy” to the recently retreated occupiers. Victim →
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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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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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