Two women <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Phipps and Rebecca <\/p>\n\n\n\n
They were last seen <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the Quarter of the Dead <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was a fraud but frauds survive <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As I had stolen the bloodied armband <\/p>\n\n\n\n
From a dead Red Cross worker <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Although I knew little about aid <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I had a basic knowledge <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As I made my way towards the front line <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was swamped by the chaos <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As terrified people ran towards <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Roses of the White Port <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The whole mess was complicated <\/p>\n\n\n\n
By a number of Western Dreamers <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Who wanted to do their bit <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Praise Marx and pass the Shroud <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is not Spain <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Marx is Dead <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I yelled as I progressed slowly<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Towards the Epicentre of Hell <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I had been stopped on many occasions <\/p>\n\n\n\n
By those who had stared into the crystal abyss <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A Lebanese man gave me a gift<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After I stemmed his bleeding <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He kissed me on my cheek <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nearby was a shattered market stall <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Which partially hid the corpse of his brother <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We were in my Paris apartment <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A deep French song <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Was dull on my record player <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Phipps was reading a book <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And occasionally glancing out of the window <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rebecca was trying to complete <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Jigsaw Puzzle of the Revolution <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Which had indirectly helped <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Me to locate them <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I had been told by a fleeing cop <\/p>\n\n\n\n
That two Western women <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Had been injured in an explosion <\/p>\n\n\n\n
At a bank near the railway tracks <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And this is where I found them <\/p>\n\n\n\n
On a traffic island sitting against a wall <\/p>\n\n\n\n
They had both been injured <\/p>\n\n\n\n
By the debris from the blast <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mainly on their exposed legs and arms <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Phipps wept as soon as she saw me <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He Waits for Me <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He Waits For Me <\/p>\n\n\n\n
She hummed between her tears <\/p>\n\n\n\n
My attention was interrupted for a moment<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As I saw a burning high speed train <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cross a fragile bridge <\/p>\n\n\n\n
On its journey into the unknown <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I looked over Phipps shoulder <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rebecca was engrossed in a jigsaw puzzle <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Beside her there was a Uzi <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sje was mi=umbling <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Almost incoherently <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thermobaric weapons<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They have thermobaric weapons<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We are all fucked <\/p>\n\n\n\n
My Uzi is empty <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have retired my Uzi <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I insisted that it was time to leave <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As I could hear intense gunfire in the distance <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rebecca wanted to complete the jigsaw puzzle <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So I compromised and told her that in my Paris Apartment <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I had many jigsaw puzzles <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Phipps enquired of the windows <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Overlooking the street <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I told her that I overlooked <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Parc of Many Weathers <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Danny why did you rescue us <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Was the final song on Paybacks latest album <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Phipps looked up from her book <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Danny why did you rescue us <\/p>\n\n\n\n
My name is not Danny <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It used to be Danny <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a past life <\/p>\n\n\n\n
My name is William <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rebecca walked in to the sunlit room <\/p>\n\n\n\n
She had completed her jigsaw puzzle <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And wanted to explore the parc opposite <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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