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unsure

25 Friday Jul 2014

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her smile ignited,

faltered, like a

fluorescent striplight

with a faulty connection,

stuttering,

then shorting out.

after

15 Tuesday Jul 2014

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I am not up to anything

I am staying in with my pain

I was just a change of scene for you

You are as heartless as a person alive can be

 

And I love you

To the loose threads of my soul

In the most secret corners of my heart

I love you as you laugh

Exactly as if nothing ever happened

 

I love you as you walk away

Exactly as before

star

10 Thursday Jul 2014

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a six-pointed fabric gold starRussland, russische Kriegsgefangene (Juden)

pinned to your chest

you attached it yourself

how could you comprehend

it marked you out for death?

 

like the oversize white Xs

they paint on the trunks

of condemned trees

in suburban streets.

 

a line of numerals

on your forearm

reminds you of the time

you fell into a world of harm:

a nightmare you couldn’t wake up from.

 

your cancelled future may have held a child

with no idea that that school badge of merit

that proud distinction

now coveted and craved

pressed onto the top

righthand corner of the page

once spelt extinction.

 

perhaps he can still remember

the unique and special

taste of the paste

on the tip of his tongue,

as he carefully moistened

its delicate reverse.

he may equate it with success,

a past perfumed with chalk dust,

promise and hopefulness.

 

but you too were once like this,

running in a playground

of levelled light-grey gravel,

invincible and breathless,

a coloured sash across your chest.

unafraid and innocent,

not knowing what it was then

not possible to know.

and now there is no unknowing it.

 

 

 

Image from Wikipedia, Antisemitism

recrimination

04 Friday Jul 2014

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tim, with his

panic-stricken hands,

trying so hard to remember

something he’s forgotten.

 

she looks at him

with last night’s

eyes, sharp nails

in skin, come

to think of it.

your chance to choose

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