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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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This year I tried on voices just like hats. Whore hat Bored hat Life’s a fucking chore hat Tore hat Sore hat Never bloody score hat Can’t take any more hat Roar hat Soon be thirty-four hat. I was running out of fabric But then I found a blessed hat Poetry obsessed hat Need a bloody rest hat Got to go out west hat Realised that politics are best avoided Put on my Sunday best hat Soon got bored with that. Tried on my dead serious

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