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 …