Limerick [Remembrance? Forget it!]

The military industry’s “Forever Wars”,

Mean our pockets are picked by their claws.

But our veterans’ street-sleeping bags,

Are replaced by more body bags,

That's great; 'cos in the morgue, they don’t snore!

Le Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh,

Dé Luain, an deichiú lá de mhí na Samhna,

dhá mhíle agus cú...

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caterpillars

caterpillars caterpillars
everywhere you look
creeping into corners
no one gives a fuck
peering from the darkness
in the shelter of a door
praying for forgiveness
hungry cold and poor

caterpillars caterpillars
down upon their luck
pleading from their makeshift beds
no one gives a fuck
pressing against cold brick
crawling on the floor
crying for their past lives
hun...

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