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PRO PATRIA MORI
As fire storms travel, we are twenty miles
from the marshalling yards at Crewe, some twelve
and a half from a tracking station near
Wardle, sixish from British Nuclear
Fuels at Capenhurst and slightly more than
four from an unspecified RAF
electronic complex in Sealand – which
all must have their numbers on at least
one ICBM in a silo
east of the Urals and/or west of
the Appalachians. And so, though there may be
nuclear winter in Hoole, we shall not
see it in our lifetime.
2 responses to “PRO PATRIA MORI”
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The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists as poetry!
Or THE WAR GAME as poetry… commissioned and then banned by the BBC, we hope! -
Delicious double ironies in that final sentence. Bring back the cold war – then there were clearer mysteries to write about!
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