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Guerrillas by Seamus Deane
POETRY
Seamus Deane’s beautiful poem probably derives from the experience of a child in the port city of Derry, encountering the foreign sailors and witnessing the city’s response to them.
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FLASH BACK
An agreement to set up an Independent International Commission on Decommissioning is signed by the B
RANDOM PICK
Giving the replicas back
What do guns when they are not in use?
In dead of night they double and divide,
naming new owners, finding a new ruse.
Carry a gun on stage, it must be fired.
Deterrent only lasts until undone.
Better they are counted out of mind.
List the ways to frame a decommission,
a car-park graveyard covered with cement.
Which stay on stasis is s