Remains Flashcards
Simon Armitage
‘On another…’
‘On another occasion, we get sent out to tackle looters raiding a bank’
‘And one of them…’
‘And one of them legs it up the road, probably armed, possibly not’
‘Well myself…’
‘Well myself and somebody else and somebody else are all of the same mind’
‘Three of a kind…’
‘Three of a kind all letting fly, and I swear I see every round as it rips through his life’
‘sort of…’
‘sort of inside out, pain itself, the image of agony’
‘One of my mates…’
‘One of my mates goes by and tosses his guts back into his body.
Then he’s carted off in the back of a lorry.’
‘End of…’
‘End of story, except not really’
‘His blood-shadow…’
‘His blood-shadow stays on the street.’
‘Sleep, and he’s…’
‘Sleep, and he’s probably armed, possibly not.
Dream, and he’s torn apart by a dozen rounds.
And the drink and the drugs won’t flush him out -‘
‘dug…’
‘dug in behind enemy lines’
‘not left for…’
‘not left for dead in some distant, sun-stunned, sand-smothered land or six-feet-under in desert sand’
‘His bloody…’
‘His bloody life in my bloody hands’
