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Spring

On the open window
garden birds
eat spiders' nests


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5 yo, London, 10 y after war
Play on bombsites
Watch flowers grow


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Ace
the moon
shining on my pillow


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How come
anti-ageing cream
has a best-before date?


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You click click the television
You know these stories so well
you expect royalties



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