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NORTH WEST WORDS<br />
SPRING / SUMMER <strong>2018</strong> ISSUE 9<br />
Flicker<br />
1<br />
The child sees<br />
on black <strong>and</strong> white<br />
television<br />
girls <strong>and</strong> boys run,<br />
flicker past<br />
broken houses<br />
piles of rubble,<br />
wearing smocks<br />
black hair white faces<br />
wild eyes<br />
legs <strong>and</strong> feet bare<br />
splash through puddles<br />
mouths wide ‘O’s<br />
or lips stretched tight<br />
in rictus grin<br />
The watching boy,<br />
five years old,<br />
asks his mother<br />
What?<br />
It’s a war<br />
a long way<br />
from here,<br />
in Korea –<br />
they are refugees,<br />
have no homes<br />
or mummies<br />
or daddies<br />
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