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on the train
It makes me sad that we have to do thisPick up a trayTake off our coatsPlace them with our bagsWatch them being watchedAs they go through a scannerWe’re just catching the 10:10hAcross the plainThrough orange and olive grovesPassing lemon trees glintingIn the low winter sun breaking over the sierrasOnce the only barrier between Murcia and →
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on dawn (sparrows)
Push Rush Swoosh BreathePush Rush Swoosh BreathePush Rush Swoosh BreatheBlackbird calling Time!Marking its territoryPush Rush Swoosh BreathePush Rush Swoosh Breatheacross the terracetwo floors downa glass door slidesplastic wheels on plastic runnerthe shallow cough of a restless smokerdesperate for fresh toxicityscrape of metal chair on balcony tilesclick of lighterexhalation of first fag draginto steel grey lightPush →
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on the wind
¡Muy vientos! Es no buenothe old man, barely half my height remarkedthe fingers of the four palmswere drawn to the mountainsnorth-east of the old townill winds bring ill moodsill luck, ill healthnothing good to this placegusting through the narrow streetspicking off loose grainsfrom the crumbling sandstonerecently tormented by lashings of hailthe wind whips round ground-down →
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on heat
wonder at mankindtrains to Paris underseapylons lift cables systems of powerconnect us to each otherbind us to our fate ~ n.b. Standing here overlooking Rainham Marshes, watching another bloody sunset, you can hear the electricity cables crackle as they carry charge towards the City of London. If you listen really carefully, you can hear the →
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