Day 690 – Expendable (Kennedy)

On Day 690 of the daily poems I offer you a found poem
dating back about 10 years ago, horribly relevant at the time …

Expendable
lines from a newspaper article

we knew who he was
and he knew us

what we didn’t know
at that precise moment

was what he knew

and what he knew 
about the timing mechanism

we were just kids

we were expendable

Peter Ualrig Kennedy
from a report in The Guardian some 10 years ago, I recall.
If it is someone else’s, I apologise for expropriating it.  Goes
to show how important provenance is for found poetry …