One child takes cover beneath our bay window, he waits on grazed knees for his breath to come back and checks the ammo in his Fairy Liquid bottle.
I suddenly realise I’m a war poet.
The schools are polling stations, the streets scorched by sun and wet with water bombs.
I stick out my head in an effort to experience the conflict of odds against evens.
An army springs from number seven
and I’m hit – an orange balloon at my shoulder – the crouching soldier comes to my aid with a towel and, with failing breath, I tell him where I keep the hose.
(Liam Wilkinson)
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