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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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Because the wind did not subside,
The policeman booked you for bribery;
And you only wanted your five pounds
Changed at the Giant’s Ring: he would
Get his fair share out of the next robbery.
Afterwards lurking cars were banned
And lovers ordered to stay outside;
The poet refused his fee, but accepted
Large expenses instead to m