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Gentlemen of the Cotton Towns
Gentlemen of the Cotton Towns
I had flown with the best of them,
Fresh faces – lean with a look of hunger
And all to do their bit for Queen and Country,
I had leapt too,
Felt the mighty currents of air
Roar through my ears at terminal velocity
And I could run like the very wind itself,
And I had walked with comrades
On grounds that could take...
Thursday 17th October 2013 1:47 am
Fortune of Tears
Fortune of Tears
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It is so harsh,
Cuts like the thinnest sliver of glass,
Meandering easily straight towards
Where melancholy has been my life-long past;
An attrition of war with no real place to go even though,
They say wounds are to heal with time,
The scab on ...
Tuesday 27th September 2011 9:55 pm
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