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Mike Jenkins - He Never Said
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He Never Said
Mike Jenkins
He never once talked about it,
my Grandpa, so dumb
I believed he’d never been there:
mentioned a training camp,
some dunes in Lancashire.
I assumed his back
had stopped him, as it did
from him becoming a blacksmith
in the family tradition:
bent as a scythe
with a hunch like a stone sack
he had to carry for penance.
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