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Guerrillas by Seamus Deane

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Seamus Deane’s beautiful poem probably derives from the experience of a child in the port city of Derry, encountering the foreign sailors and witnessing the city’s response to them.

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Just to be there would not be enough: To stop at neighbours’ gates and ask, Have you heard the news? And see their faces Seeing your face. Behind shop counters, men would shake their heads. You wouldn’t feel like doing anything that day, Maybe just watching tides and the horizon. Images sent to the world on amateur video Over and over like traditional music, ‘til you learn to open your eyes through the whole sequence, Sean-nós, pure pit

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