Taint

From “The Kreig Anthology” opening poem of Under the Clock: new poems by Tony Harrison has a first-person satirical piece on Tony Blair. These lines leap out:

None of the blood and shit of war
ever clogs a single pore.

The repugnance all that stronger as the reader is resisting alignment with the first person speaker.

And so for day 493
19.04.2008

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