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This year, I set myself the foolish task of trying to write something every day, and what you see here is the result. None of this is finished, polished, or in any way good. It's usually a few lines at the end of the day when I'm tired, my head's broken, and this nonsense spills out of it onto the page. Feel free to comment away, and if you think anything has any potential then let me know and I might have a go at working on it further.

But hang on, where's the first month? You've ripped us off! I hear you say... Well, yes. I have been writing since the beginning of January, but it's taken me a while to get the blog up, so everything here is a month old.

Saturday, 5 November 2016

The Fifth

The flames have come
Held aloft with bitter fingers
They march tradition's beating drum.
Colours together in common cause
With the smell of paraffin rags burning.

Remember! Remember!
The smoke hoarse call
Rings from boarded streets
As black boots tread the hills once more.

In the dark they walk those paths
The light comes first and then the noise
The cordite crack and then the horn.
Beware! Beware!
Bonfire has come.

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