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Cards (36)
"
explain yuself
" - half caste
"yu
mean
when Picasso
mix
red an
green
is a
half
caste
canvas
" - half caste
"half of
mih
eye
""half of mih ear" - half caste
"
i am not de problem
" - no problem
"now i am
branded
athletic
" - no problem
"yu put
me
in a pigeon
hole
but i am
versatile
" - no problem
"
black
is
not
de
problem
mother country
get it
right
" - no problem
"
my name
? where am i
coming
from?
where am i
going
?" - belfast confetti
"i
know
this
labyrinth
so
well
" - Belfast confetti
"a
fount
of
broken
type" - belfast confetti
"to the
front
door
threw
it open, the
world
overflowing
like a
treasure chest
" - poppies
"
hoping
to hear your
playground
voice
catching
on the wind
" - poppies
"
crimped
petals
spasms
of
paper
red
" - poppies
"
poppies
had already been
placed
on
induvial
war
graves
" - poppies
"
how
can you
tell
what
class
im
from
" - the class game
"have i a
label
on me
head
, and
another
on
me
bum
?" - the class game
"or is it
because
my
hands
are
stained
with
toil
? instead of
soft
lily
white with
perfume
and
oil
?" - the class game
"
why
do you care what
class
i'm from? - the class game
"and im
proud
of the
class
that i
come
from
" - the class game
"the
reassurance
of the
frame
is
flexible
" - war photographer
"a
small
girl
staggering down
some
devasted
street" - war photographer
"
peach
sun gilded girls, silk crumpled
champange
giggles
" - war photographer
"
people eat sleep love normally
while i
seek
out the
tragic
and
absurd
" - war phtographer
"
one summer
(led by
her
)" - the prelude
"went
heaving
through
water
like a
swan
" - the prelude
"
uprear
ed i
t hea
d.
i stru
ck and struck
again
" - the prelude
"there hung a
darkness
call it
solitude
or blank
desertion
" - the prelude
"why did the
great lord
find
me
out
" - cousin kate
"his
plaything
and his
love
" - cousin kate
"o lady
kate
, my cousin
kate
" - cousin kate
"
you had the stronger wing
" - cousin kate
"
but nothing happens
" - exposure
"
far
off, like a
dull
rumour
of some
other war
"
"
sudden successive flights
of
bullets streak
the silence less
deadly
than the
air
" - exposure
"the
merciless iced east winds that knive us
" - exposure
"
we turn back to our dying
" - exposure