Heather thanks for that -I enjoyed it 'games' did wonder if instead 'I'it
could read we to sort of be inclusive
Cheers P nods off back to sleep
Is there a graffiti exhibition in a gallery at brixton/herne hill -I am
partial to that
I seem to assume yu are based that way prob wrongly
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Sent: 24 August 2006 09:17
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Subject: snap : Barbwire
(my computer was being stubborn and wouldn't let me send this yesterday...)
Barbwire
Ribbons cut the sky like birthday decorations
and make a present of the atmosphere.
Lying on my back I could be in Palestine,
Iraq or my uncle's mid-prairie field.
Those spikes are good for keeping out, sliding under
to play commando, though some places it's for real
those enemies not merely trees in the distance
but blurred shapes with night vision goggles
our stick guns real in someone's hands,
their memories of childhood fading.
I like to pretend barbwire is only for cows
electric fences giving them a psychology lesson.
How can you sleep if you think it's for children,
women with scarves covering their faces,
dreaming of sky that goes clear to the stars
unwrapped of those reminders of war.
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