Bodies

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They say bodies are to be buried in the ground
I agree.
So what then, when you're in a graveyard
and you see, above your head
the RAF plane on its way to Brize Norton
low and fat and slow, like a cargo
bringing back its share of bodies
from far middle eastern ways?

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