tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81224005795712115182024-03-05T05:56:40.603-08:00Ghost Story II (Napwrimo 2015)onewriterandhispchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15702245307703378836noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8122400579571211518.post-60642861907246895852015-06-19T14:40:00.001-07:002015-06-19T14:56:49.874-07:00Guest Poet 19 - Uncle's Ghost by Ananya S Guha.Even though the story is finished for this year, i am still getting submitting in which are simply too good quality not to use.<br />
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First up is returning friend Ananya S Guha who offers this excellent poem 'Uncle's Ghost'.<br />
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He sat Buddha like<br />
shaven, ashen<br />
he sat otiose, no looks<br />
moribund, but sitting.<br />
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Me thirteen<br />
me in myths and shrouds<br />
me who knew ghosts<br />
but hadn't met<br />
me me me.<br />
My eyes became a traffic snarl<br />
I hid under the blanket<br />
unmoved he stared, meditative<br />
smiling, almost laughing<br />
after all Buddha like<br />
my first incursion to prayer,<br />
sleep and oblivious meditation.<br />
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Buddha like. Ghost? Buddha was<br />
dead centuries ago.<br />
But now this Buddha, terrible, smiling<br />
sitting at my supine feet. Incantation.<br />
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My anthropological uncle in<br />
one of his excavations- digging!onewriterandhispchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15702245307703378836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8122400579571211518.post-58618261186449686972015-04-30T04:53:00.000-07:002015-04-30T04:53:50.315-07:00Part XXX Part A and B and guest poet 18 - Jeffarama!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>(Last two pieces today. It's been a long</b><br />
<b>and eventful journey but has become apparent</b><br />
<b>to myself over the past few days that this story</b><br />
<b>is not over and hopefully health permitting,</b><br />
<b>there will indeed be a Ghost Story Part III</b><br />
<b>next month. </b><br />
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<b>As a special afterthought which may lead into</b><br />
<b>Part III, my special buddy Jeffarama! (<a href="http://www.writeoutloud.net/profiles/jeffarama!)">http://www.writeoutloud.net/profiles/jeffarama!)</a></b><br />
<b>has done a alternative ending </b><br />
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<b>In the meantime, thanks for reading) </b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">XXX (A)<o:p></o:p></span></b></h5>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Creating
a breaking sound<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Your
words of agreement<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Was
almost overturned<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Then
unpacked<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Into
the boot of a car<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Blowing
on panes of glass<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Resurrecting
itself<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In
a verbal affirmation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Of
the truth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Translated
into a slight tear<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">‘It’s
only going<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">to
get worse<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He
was just the first’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Vanishing
down the staircase<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">With
me in tow. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>XXX</b><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> (B)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Vanishing
across railway dust<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Tranmissing
effects<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Into
hand held mysteries<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Shooting
down hopes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Freckled
into spots<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Migrating
into different towns<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Kicking
through other doors<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">She
said it was only going<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">To
get worse<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Before
we even got<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Down
the staircase<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">And
a few dozen deaths<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Was
nothing to what was going<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">To
happen next<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Shifting
answers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Into
another adventures<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Before
surfacing again<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">At
the beginning of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Another
story. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Don't think that's the end of the matter... </b><br />
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Ironic really<br />
the headline said it all<br />
'Innocent commuters massacred'<br />
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Ironic as it was on the paper stall<br />
outside the station<br />
the atrocities happened<br />
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Not even a natural disaster<br />
no, that may have been acceptable<br />
but as usual, a complete waste,<br />
a senseless loss of innocent life<br />
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What gives you the right?<br />
to take my life<br />
to cut me down in my prime<br />
to dictate the day that I die...<br />
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I hope you get <br />
everything you deserve<br />
although it's nothing compared<br />
to what I have in mind<br />
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Remember to watch your back<br />
for the rest of your life<br />
if you think you're being watched<br />
those eyes are mine<br />
<br />
My soul won't rest<br />
Until I track you both down. <br />
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Jeff Dawson April 2015<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(As said yesterday, in a attempt to keep this down to just April</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I am now writing two poems a day.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The poems today follow straight on from Part 28.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Can you wait until the conclusion tomorrow? (with a special</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">epilogue wrote by our last guest poet too)</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">XXVIX (A)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Shut
close<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Those
words followed me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cresting
over the balcony<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Into
a muffled deadness<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Shelved
into blurred lights<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">With
his face staring<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Into
my eyes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">All
the way down<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Thirsting
for blood<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Leaving
footprint<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After
footprint<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In
my memory<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cutting
through my relief<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">With
an axe<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Slipping
away<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In
a broken lullaby.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">XXVIX (B)</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ripping
up the tension<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You
would have kissed me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If
you could and told me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I’d
be okay<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Threading
away my pain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And
the blood<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">All
over my ripped jeans<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And
trainers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Thickened
in<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A
sharp transfer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Seeping
through<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Drenched
in passion<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As
much as<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A
lingering sense of guilt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>(The people who know me better may remember</b></div>
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<b>it's my birthday today but still no stopping me</b></div>
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<b>on Napwrimo. As previously hinted, there will</b></div>
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<b>making life harder for myself - lol. Today's poem</b></div>
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<b>(Also included is our latest guest poem from Stormy Gail Dormire</b><br />
<b>who offers Approaching Station 12 directly set in this world)</b>
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<b>XVIII (A)</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Broken into pieces</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">He
pumped shell after shell<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Into
the spaces<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Round
the doorarch<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Above
me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Spraying
it so much<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">It
looked like<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">He
was redecorating <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Rather
than trying to kill me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Screaming
‘Die, Die, Die’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">With
such force <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">It
sounded like<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">He
was trying to will me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">To
death<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">When
the bullets didn’t<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Losing
the thrill<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">When
he kept pumping<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Them
out<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">And
none of them hit me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Before
proclaiming<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Eventually<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">‘How?’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">‘I’m
not sure<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">I
know myself’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">I
said walking<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Slowly
towards him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">XVIII (B)</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Slim
as a flute<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Accompanied
by flames<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">And
muffled cries <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">I
wish I could say<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">I
grabbed the rifle<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">And
threw the bullets<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Off
the balcony <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Headlong
into<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
doorway <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Sculpting
hope<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">From
the worst of misery<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Packed
within sandwiches<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Experimenting
in voices<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">In
miniature<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Laced
in pessimism <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Instead
Doubling over<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
balcony together<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">With
only one <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Further
sentence spoke<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">‘This
is only the beginning, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">‘This
is only the beginning’ </span><br />
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<b>Approaching Station 12</b><br />
<b><br /></b>Go back, Go-ooo Back, go back, go-ooo back<br />
the wheels rolling down the track<br />
seemed to repeat over and over and over<br />
Go back, Go-ooo Back, go back, go-ooo back<br />
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From deep in the shadows it watched and wondered<br />
“Why was this man not seeing the peril approaching<br />
Why hire supposedly safeties best security - if<br />
He only sits and watches the comely women boarding and leaving<br />
Following their every move inappropriately”<br />
While - right in the snipers line of vision<br />
The train approaches the train station<br />
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On the train<br />
An innocent child is coloring in her mother's new mystery novel<br />
A clown is selling balloons ahead in the next car<br />
The right Father Henry reads to sister Ann about the apostle<br />
Immigrants from far off India watch their new world out the window<br />
The conductor strolls congenially down the aisle greeting all<br />
“Station Twelve ahead.” He calls<br />
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And the wheels rolling down the track<br />
continue to repeat over and over and over<br />
Go back, Go-ooo Back, go back, go-ooo back<br />
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The train lunged and shivered<br />
As the vaporous shadow crystallized<br />
Lunging to grab the cord above the guard's head <br />
All business now the guard fights the spector<br />
While the passengers cower in fright<br />
And the train keeps rolling toward the station<br />
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The specter moans<br />
Does anyone hear?<br />
The guard has fought him off<br />
He howls with frightful frustration<br />
The sniper is wait---ing, wait--ing, wait -ting<br />
Your doo-oomed , all doo-oomed<br />
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And the wheels rolling down the track<br />
continue to repeat over and over and over<br />
Go back, Go-ooo Back, go back, go-ooo back<br />
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Tugging her mothers sleeve, she points him out<br />
“Can’t we help him, he wants us to listen”<br />
The little girl cries<br />
While the immigrants hide between the seats<br />
And father Henry holds up his crucifix <br />
The clown rushes in and pulls the cord<br />
Slamming the conductor to the floor<br />
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The train rolls into station 12<br />
But no one feels the bullets when they come<br />
All are safely hiding between the seats<br />
The specter disappears into the air<br />
His duty done<br />
His little girl and wife will make it home<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">XXVII<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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themselves<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The
bullets sprayed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">All over
the floor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in screams<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">With
each shot<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Dancing
to a private dance<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Staining
chaos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Rotting
in the air<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Offering
a different story<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">With
each death<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">In honey
eyed intent<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Turning
violence into prose<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Madness
into hope<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">And I
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on victims<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Alfloat
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Swallowing
up their panics<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Like a
vampire getting high<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">On
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Pausing
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">In-between
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">For a
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Letting
them think<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">That was
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">And when
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">He shot
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">And
again<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Shooting
some victims<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Over and
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">And
puzzled <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">When
shooting one<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Turning
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">A few
seconds <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">To
discover the body was gone<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">And was
stood there<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Half a
metre up the platform. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Chained
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Her
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Around
my thoughts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">In wind
chimes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Gleaming
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The
sunset<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">And the
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Of that
platform<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Snapping
bullets<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Around
me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Like an
invisible wall<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Jolting
a distraction<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<em><span style="background: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Equivocatory</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
allowing me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">To keep
ducking and diving<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">moving further and further into the end game coming soon) </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Just
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Her
words followed me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Out of
the newsagent<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Just
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">With
cold black eyebrows<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Drifiting
in and out<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Of the
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Just
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">And let
me draw his fire<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Let me
draw his fire<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">While
you sneak in<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Behind
him<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">‘even I
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">that’s a
plan<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">out of
Scooby Do’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">‘I’ll
probably get shot<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">before I
am even<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">halfway
across<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">the
platform’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">How I
didn’t even know<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">To
this day.</span></div>
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<b>(Part XXIII covers another conversation between Michelle and</b><br />
<b>Andy moving slowly and slowly towards the end game.</b><br />
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<b>Our 16th guest poet is our returning friend, Meschach R Brencher</b><br />
<b>from with the second of two poems)</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Biting at my ankles</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Edged
membrane grey<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cluttering
across your <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Every
word,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Smouldering
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Before
snapping shut<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Streetlight
yellow <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">‘You
have no choice<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Andy’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Spooned
into my emotions<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">‘All
hell is breaking loose’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">‘I don’t
understand you’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">thread
inside out<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">‘This is
just the beginning of the end’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Inbetween
bullets <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Riding
up and down<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The
corridors<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Inbetween
seams of dust<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Contradicting
itself<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Worse
than memory. </span></div>
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<strong><span style="background: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/meshach.r.brencher"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Meshach R. Brencher</span></a></span></strong><b><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Kiss the knife<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">That bleeds your soul<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Dark vines have a sharp
touch<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Water running down<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">From the river<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I sink underneath<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The sail ship dancing
figures around<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Where I cross the harbour<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">While the horizon floats me
in vain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Among cold feelings<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Where my destination has no
arrival<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Entangled in heavy vessels I
cannot escape<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Forgotten like the ship
anchors<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The pier watching sunset<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">As I close my eyes shut<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Darkness the only requiem<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">As the light has no purpose<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">To see what cuts deeply in
me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Is so far away<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Transparent and loathing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">For eternal twilight<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Sucked away by the wind<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I cannot feel you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">But your spirit will never leave me</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>(Part XXII moving straight on is a conversation</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>just before the action begins between Andy (the</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>narrator) and Michelle (Ghost))</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>(Guest Poet 15 is a young poet I have known</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>for a few years called Meshach R Brencher</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>who delivers the first of two very clever poems</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>which although not in Ghost Story II are very</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>worthy pieces in their own right)</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>(More of his work can be heard <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/ADL718">here</a> and <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ratedmrbest1987">here</a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>or read <a href="http://www.writeoutloud.net/profiles/meshachrbrencher">here</a>)</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">XXII</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Bearing the weight of the killings</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Something
unseen left<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Wet
marks on glass<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Screwed
up across soaked<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Wrapping
paper<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">And
burst fountain pens<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Scratched
across the magazines<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">She said
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Tumbling
all around her<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Cradling
her fears<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Enfolded
across<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">An ocean
of assumptions<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">tellingthe
reporters <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">trapped
in no-mans land<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">before I
picked her up<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">sailing
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">littered
with rhetorical rockets<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">and
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<strong><span style="background: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/meshach.r.brencher"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Meshach R.
Brencher</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<b><span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Dark matter<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Hungry with no purpose<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Part XXI is again from the eyes of the killer)</b><br />
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<b>XXI</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Through
her valley of abuse<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">That
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Driving
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Until he
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Drawing
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">That led
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">With
each shot fired<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Looking
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">With
each hit scored<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Leaving
the artist behind<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">In
a matter of moments. </span></div>
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<b>(Part XX already. Phew.. Part XX covers our old friend the cleaner</b><br />
<b>who like the police inspector from Part XIX knows more than he </b><br />
<b>also reveals)</b><br />
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<b>(Our 14th guest poet is a gentleman I know from Write Out Loud</b><br />
<b>Stockport (A open mike night I regularly attend called Martin Elder.</b><br />
<b>A great bloke with a even better sense of humor. With this poem doesnt'</b><br />
<b>display his humour, this is a powerful skillful poem which I hope you</b><br />
<b>all will like also)</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">XX</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Hidden out of sight</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Peering
across the tracks<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Opening
up his bucket<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Like an
umbrella<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Broken
into a concave shape<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Mopped
into silence,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">He saw
first the killer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Then me <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Descending
slowly<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Like
falling leaves<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Over the
platform<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Clustering
at the edge<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Shining
nerves<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Passing
the barrier<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Not
releasing <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">It was
designed <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">To keep
everybody out,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Separated
only<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">To
the point of rescue. </span><br />
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<b>Once upon a time (Martin Elder)</b><br />
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Once upon a time<br />
There was you and there was me<br />
Lost forever<br />
In a place we called home<br />
We would pretend<br />
It was ours<br />
The big house<br />
Where others lived<br />
But we could declare<br />
To nobody else<br />
It was ours<br />
I was King and you were Queen<br />
Like all good children<br />
Heard but never seen<br />
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We ruled in our very own<br />
Palace<br />
It was our<br />
Stately chalice<br />
The holy grail of<br />
Our life together<br />
Forever young, carefree<br />
Summers hot<br />
Winters cold<br />
Toasting by a fire<br />
How we danced<br />
So very bold<br />
By day and by night<br />
Until that day<br />
A dance to close<br />
Your dress caught<br />
Alight<br />
Two souls trapped<br />
In a place<br />
That turned from palace<br />
To prison<br />
overnight<br />
Never allowed to grow up<br />
We did not know the difference<br />
Between dark and light<br />
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The smell of burning still<br />
Remained<br />
Our skin a pale white<br />
Charred and blackened wood<br />
Escape seemed impossible<br />
The burning, smouldering flesh<br />
Tormenting<br />
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A hundred years or more later<br />
We walked danced and ran<br />
Down corridors<br />
Through walls and doors<br />
Only ever seen by cats and dogs<br />
And an occasional brave child<br />
Confronted with the tired eyes<br />
And flesh ridden sores<br />
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But now the house is gone<br />
Knocked down<br />
And turned to grass<br />
With only a plaque to remind<br />
Of the fateful day<br />
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And so we are free<br />
At last<br />
You and me<br />
To become sprites of the day<br />
Dancing across field and hedge<br />
Free to wander and to find<br />
Our own way<br />
Far, far away<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(Moving on Part 19 - this piece tells the story</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">from the eyes of the Police Inspector who as you will</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">discover knows more than he reveals to the reporter.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Also is our latest Guest Poet, the 13th one is a lovely</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">lady called Hazel
Connolly who has submitted a sequel</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">poem to the one she wrote last year herself. That itself</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">can be read <a href="http://napowrimo2014.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/guest-poet-3-hazel-connelly-ghost.html">here</a> and more of her work can also be read</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.writeoutloud.net/profiles/hazelconnelly">here</a>)</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Scaled
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Of what
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his interview with the press<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Panting
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">‘Did
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">To which
he answered<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ghost II (Hazel Connolly)</h4>
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When I returned to the crossroads</h4>
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To meet this raven haired ghost,</h4>
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Lost in thoughts</h4>
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I stared at the madness</h4>
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Lurking in the darkness before daylight</h4>
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All around the shadows gather.</h4>
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Then, your ruby red lips</h4>
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Brushed against my cheek</h4>
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In a strange haze of shock</h4>
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I call your name..</h4>
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Again you are gone.</h4>
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A cascade of tears</h4>
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Falls down my face</h4>
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You came and taunted..</h4>
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I only wanted to say goodbye.</h4>
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While deaths shadows</h4>
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Loom over me</h4>
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I’m drowning in sadness</h4>
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My broken heart crying</h4>
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While searching dark</h4>
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Shadows in the night</h4>
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I know now,</h4>
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You are a child of the moon</h4>
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<b>(Moving straight on Part 18, we are back through</b><br />
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dreams with hard earned sweat<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Ripping
policemen in half<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">And
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Into
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Slowly
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<b>(Part 17 is a step forward in time between our two main characters.</b><br />
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<b>Our latest guest poet is Tina Ford who i know from Write Out Loud</b><br />
<b>and of which i am made up she has got in touch to submit the excellent</b><br />
<b>enclosed guest poem. More of her work can be read <a href="http://www.writeoutloud.net/profiles/tina#_gallerypage1">here</a>)</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">‘That
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Strung
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Across
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Off the
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">‘No’ She
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">‘This is
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;"><b>Tina Ford – Ghost Poem</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">In this waiting room I wait,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">Morning papers read,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">Useless conversations had,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">Talking with undead,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">They treat me as a living soul,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">And that I do not mind,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">I've lingered here for decades now,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">My life was so unkind,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">They do not seem to bother,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">At my dirty clothes and hair</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">My blood stains all but disappeared,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">Along with locks so fair,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">Once a lady asked me,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">Do you live round here,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">I answered her quite boldly,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">Of course I do just there,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">I pointed out the waiting room,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">Onto the tracks outside,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">She looked at me disgusted like,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">And laughed, as though I'd lied,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">But this is where I wandered,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">As I waited for my love,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">He couldn't catch me quick enough,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">That night I took a shove,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">A shove into the coming train,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">I would never out race,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">My life was gone in an instant,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">But I never saw their face,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">But all of this i did not mind,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">As i waited for my groom,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">I knew it wouldn't be long now,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">We would be leaving here quite soon,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">He went to fetch my bridal bow,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">The wind had blew it high,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">I saw my friend Elizabeth,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">She came to say goodbye,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">But Elizabeth looked sorrowful,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">Her tears rolled down her face,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">Walking quite a march was she,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">There was no need to race,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">I remember calling Tommy,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">Before I hit the track,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">And seeing poor Elizabeth,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">Pulling and holding him back,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">The train had passed so quickly,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">And when I looked to see,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">There on the bank was my bridal bow,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">No sight of Elizabeth or Tommy,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">And so i wait and wait some more,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">For he's bound to show quite soon,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">Then we can take the track together,</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(Into the second half we go now, and this next piece tells the story through the eyes of the young shop assistant who we met earlier.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;"><b>Our 11th Guest Poet needs no introduction from me, the legend that is Attila the Stockbroker who makes his second appearance in two years on my ghost story poems)</b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">XVI<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Of how
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Knocked
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Bridging
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Flattened
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Of
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">‘I owe
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">before
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">she
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">rippling
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<b style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">A CENTENARY WAR POEM</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">For Bill Baine, 1899-1968</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">1/15th Battalion, London Regiment , soldier number 535068</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">‘What passing-bells for those who die as cattle?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">Only the monstrous anger of the guns.’</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">And so some lines to spike centenary prattle:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">These words a sole survivor soldier’s son’s. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">My father Bill, born in Victorian England: </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">The sixth of January, 1899.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">His stock, loyal London. Proletarian doff-cap.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">Aged seventeen, he went to join the line.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">Just in a ghastly slaughter at the Somme -</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">He dreamed Sassoon: he wrote Belloc and Lear. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">And read me Owen’s ‘Anthem For Doomed Youth’. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">These words a sole survivor soldier’s son’s.</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia;">(At the halfway point, and here is a somewhat more tender poem about the two central characters. Out latest guest poet is my good friend, Gray Nicholls who I have known for a long time now I guess and never ceases to surprise me with his work. To read more of his work including his amazing waiting for Nancy sequence, please go here </span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><a href="http://www.writeoutloud.net/blogs/graynicholls">http://www.writeoutloud.net/blogs/graynicholls</a>)</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Inflicing moments of peoples lives<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">As they rushed to and from<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Who decided to turn the station<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">And an officer he declined to name<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Had given his life protecting the public<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Feigning his own survival <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">I'm still here,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Still above the ground,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">I grew tired of waiting<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">And left where you laid me
down<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">On that winter's day,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">When you chose the root<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">And cut off the excess <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Chose to lay down dem bones<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">I am no longer stuck to them<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">I flit through the now cold
buildings <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">The once warm party places<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Watching the histories play<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Life upon life left behind<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">The secret scars, defacing,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">The dead quiet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">I watch a family grow<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Then leave, then die,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">And the living dead that
time defies<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Replaced, in turn, by the
young,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Strolling and driving and
loving<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">All the same things that I
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">My touch is forgotten,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Somewhere, someone relearns
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Without me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Still waiting for you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">To forgive my desire to love<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Raise dem bones<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">I have seen ten thousand
years<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Ten million fears<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Ten billion tears<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Now I stand at the edge<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">The end of the loop<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">A great choice<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Beyond which, your home<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">My bones<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">I cannot get them back<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Cannot return<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">The thought of reliving
resickens <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Even in this notion form<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">So I pass beyond<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #F6F7F8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Onward, to haunt<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">(Speeding towards the halfway point, here is Part 13 telling the story from a none human pair of eyes - a little dog.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Guest Poet 8 is my friend Natfastic again who offers a second poem called Submarine. Natalie's link again to read more is </span></b><a href="http://writeoutloud.net/profiles/natfastic" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt;">http://writeoutloud.net/profiles/natfastic</a>)</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Gleaming like flowstone<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Stumped almost ankle height<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">He was the only one<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Who saw the final confrontation, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Turning leaves like footsteps<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Pinned to each punch<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Glinting with violence<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Increasingly linked together<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>(<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Not getting as much time as I would at the moment to write little</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">notes before all of these pieces but hope you are still enjoying them.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Todays is from the point of view of a cleaner who saw everything)</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Next guest poet is a young lady from near Bantry, Southern Ireland</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">who wrote a wonderful poem last year for Ghost Story I, Siofra Martin</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>who has again wrote another lovely poem. Her poem for those interested</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>from last year can be seen again here - <a href="http://napowrimo2014.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/guest-poet-7-siofra-martin-ghost.html">http://napowrimo2014.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/guest-poet-7-siofra-martin-ghost.html</a>)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Gravelled deep in nerves<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Swaddled in blood<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The 6th Guest Poet is another young writer, I have encountered recently called Danielle Matthews from the Stockport area I believe who offers a excellent piece called Signs.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Danielle advises me although she hasn't blogged much yet she does have a poem coming out on <a href="https://pankhearst.wordpress.com/submissions/slim-volume-wherever-you-roam/">here</a> in May 2015. Good luck Danielle and thanks for the excellent poem)</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">(Moving Straight on, Part VII explores the pieces from another angle hoping you see the story from all kinds of angles. Our 5th guest poet (coming in thick and fast) is a dear friend of mine, Nadeem who offers this very tender poem Eyes Wide Open. More of his work can be read at </span><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/My-Inner-Sanctum/514909568651478?fref=ts">https://www.facebook.com/pages/My-Inner-Sanctum/514909568651478?fref=ts</a>)</span></span></h3>
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Wide Open (for Hassan)</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Used
to be a prisoner of my own fate,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A
casualty sacrificed at the altar of high society,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A soul
now wakes, disturbed by this volatile, noxious bait,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Once I
was enslaved by the powers that be, the allegedly high and mighty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">My
strength was bound by the slings and arrows of decadence and hedonism, my state
of consciousness ravaged through a myriad of trips and, so elegantly stoned and
wasted, I never knew my conscience to be such a murky, adulterated place, the
line of balance between fantasy and reality I rode, blurring wonderfully into a
mass of colour and substance, mine was a spirit unchanged by the hysteria of
this modern dilemma.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">My
breaking point came when I was thrust headlong into these arid flames, I was a
broken man, but still one of vision and hope, Got sick of the mindless dragons
and their futile games, My life was teetering on the edge, somehow I managed to
cope.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">I saw
the zombies of my former world surrender to their latest fix, I resisted, but
this arduous path was torture, my body drenched in sweat and blood, the results
of my adventures all too familiar to me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Found
myself in chains, pacing up and down in the corridors of the emergency
department, men and women now mere remnants of who they once were, reality
bites, a flood of cold perspiration gushes down my back, my turning point is
close by.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Emerged
from a medicated respite, keen and eager to sample sobriety, the new delights
of life after this narcotic haze are so appealing, I dry out, the angels of
death bid me farewell as we prepare to go our separate ways.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">My
final recovery is a slow one, I found my true emotions are now so very easily
spoken, All my old "friends" are dead and gone, I look forward to
living my life with my eyes wide open.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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2006, Nadeem<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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