Dinosaurs

Poem by Roger Iredale

The deaths are classified ‘collateral’: puffs of dust across a landscape of ‘we have no option but to…’

It was not from the tongues of angels that came the whine
of exocets intent on harm to tribesmen, comrades, friends.

The deaths are classified ‘collateral’: puffs of dust
across a landscape of ‘we have no option but to…’

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