Poetry

Saxby Pridmore: Three Poems

Alfred Nobel Strasse The men who dropped the bomb in Alfred Nobel Strasse, south of Bonn are dead (of anti-aircraft fire and time) that killed a man just now. They’d send flowers to his wife if they knew and could. But he wasn’t born when they did their thing so, how could they know now?   He was digging with a digger and didn’t know their bomb was there or what happened next, on the street named for the man who invented dynamite.   It was nothing personal, is the best that can be said but his children disagree. The…

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