Aly Smith

End of Discussion

Listen to the song of the women, smooth as stroked feathers
Yet unable to calm the waters.

Overheard:

‘Every single Russian living here should be made to go back to Russia.
Straight away.
No excuses.’

‘That’s stupid.
Proper stupid.
Why should the innocent take responsibility?
I have been crying.
It’s war.’

‘We’ll just have to agree to disagree.’

‘No. No, I don’t agree to disagree, but end of discussion.’

Every single Russian living here should be made
To go back to Russia.
Straight away.
No excuses.

● Apricots taste bitter
● Taut sheets feel rough.
● Azaleas smell spoiled.
● Birds ‘bang, bang.’
● Our sky is shattered.

Matthew 24:7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and in various places there will be famines and earthquakes.

‘…there is no officially recognised disorder that causes one to assume human emotions in objects.’

So why does that T-64BV sniff them out?
Its nose in their family business?

Age-old, age-old
Age-old hollow cradle.