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NORTH WEST WORDS<br />
SPRING / SUMMER <strong>2018</strong> ISSUE 9<br />
Those were the days<br />
long before the troubles on the road,<br />
armoured cars <strong>and</strong> army foot patrol<br />
the distant sound of city centre bombs,<br />
the never ending funerals<br />
filing past the silent shops.<br />
She died before the worst of it,<br />
before Black Friday or Bloody Sunday<br />
or the riots on Internment Day<br />
when the Co-op was wrecked in revenge,<br />
when I watched a hijacked truck<br />
shunt in reverse through the shop front,<br />
saw the crazy collapse of glass,<br />
the mangled racks <strong>and</strong> shelves<br />
<strong>and</strong> the kids scrambling in the tangle<br />
helping themselves to cigarettes <strong>and</strong> sweets.<br />
And under the big back wheels<br />
scattered all across the middle aisle<br />
a mess of flattened fruit <strong>and</strong> veg<br />
<strong>and</strong> all those crushed <strong>and</strong> damaged tins.<br />
Noel Connor<br />
9
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