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Confessions of the Hack Trade.

“Terzanelle Beginning with a Line by Plomer"

‘We came upon them there by accident,’
caught in the headlights’ glare at half past midnight.
After so much lost sleep, and sights to daunt
the stoutest heart: escaping through our net,
two children, barefoot, plainly terrified
caught in the headlights’ glare. At half past midnight
that alley saw flashes stun the brain, then fade.
Why would anyone bother to execute
two children, barefoot? Plainly terrified
we fled the way we came. Can’t sugar-coat
what happens in war and the panic haste of men.
Why would anyone bother? To execute
orders: you think you know what that must mean
walking the sniper streets like us. All zombie’d,
what happens in war and the panic haste of men
is a tragedy of clowns; our sins abide.

We came upon them there by accident
walking the sniper streets, like us all zombie’d
after so much lost sleep, and sights to daunt.

(2004)

"In an instant, that country was gone."

"I'm going to end up paying extra to not have AI in my next laptop, aren't I?" --@hmittelmark (via @mjohnharrison)

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