ah yes Bill -sad times
On 25/02/2020 21:10, Bill Wootton wrote:
> Black Saturday
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> i
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> While we waited
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> the earth rumbled
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> We licked our lips
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> eyes on the horizon
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> What would it be first?
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> Flaming embers, bright orange heat
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> or the over-amplified sound of crackling branches?
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> ii
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> While we slept
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> it murdered on
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> in Strathewan, Marysville, St Andrews
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> When my eyes flicked open myopically
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> I thought the blowsy box-leaf canopy
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> was a massive plume of smoke
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> But it wasn’t. This time
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>
> bw
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