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Sam Berkson - Another Veteran with a Head Wound
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Another Veteran with a Head Wound
Sam Berkson
“I see his uniform is woven / Of blood, bone, flesh and hair” – Adrian Mitchell
An ex-squaddie.
All misery and all lightness
council born and bred
scum of the earth, me.
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