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Cathy Galvin - Crimea
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Crimea
Cathy Galvin
Standing perfect apart, we look the same.
Spring tanks chain Crimea. The canons gone.
A shell's wave claims the atoms of our air.
Sleep-walking to the familiar battlefield.
Spring tanks chain Crimea. The canons gone.
Too late for sanctions in this Lovingrad.
Sleep-walking to the familiar battlefield.
Repenting the impossibility of forgetting.
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