London Dinner

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Young unwashed skin

Under bare feet

On a red velvet carpet

Gilded with wealth


The fooled mind

Following the voices

Of the children

Playing


Leaving the warm food

In the emptying room

The sirens calling out

To the crowded sky


The ragged clothing

Waving in cold night air

The lights retreating

Into the shadow of the land


And the deaths fall

The power

To vanquish all

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