EUPHEMISMS
A spokesman for the United States forces has described the recent bombardment of Faluja as ‘defensive’. During the defensive assault on the town, it is reported that 36 people in one row of houses in one street were killed by one rocket. A neighbour who survived the attack had reservations about the use of the word ‘defensive’.
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‘O to be in England, now that April’s here’ (2). It’s been a day of high winds & driving rain. A colleague, looking disconsolately out of the staffroom window at the dripping trees, grunted, “It’s just winter with leaves, isn’t it?”
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STORM
Incandescent: sky splits,
bruise becomes wound,
wound becomes
light with teeth.
Wind bays, blunders
amongst the panic-stricken trees.
Clouds discharge
into fat green rain;
the day thickens, distorts;
violence rings electric
in the mad water,
its storm voices.
The window-lens dilates.
We fold into ourselves,
seeking shelter within
the feeble harbour
of our closed wings.
Nature preys upon itself;
inside the flapping dark
the world convulses,
chokes then cries aloud
in the ceaseless vowels
of the wind.
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ART ON YOUR SLEEVE # 3
Haight-Ashbury's finest. Sadly, acid trumpet & psychedelic accordion never really made it...
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