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When you (you stinking mess of bile and hate)
dropped bombs by proxy on your chosen prey,
you ‘made your bed’ and sealed your hellbound fate
with guilt which you can never wash away.

For when you killed your man with blood and gore,
four others too were killed ‘collaterally’:
His daughter, son-in-law, daughter-in-law
and granddaughter — just fourteen months was she.

But you (you puppets, pawns and devil’s spawn)
just whooped with joy within your war-room’s walls.
Later, you sipped your sherry on the lawn.
You’re bullies with no heart, or spine, or balls.

The damage that you call “collateral”
is in the eyes of God abominable.

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© Copyright, Alan Morrison, 2026
[The copyright on my works is merely to protect them from any wanton plagiarism which could result in undesirable changes (as has actually happened!). Readers are free to reproduce my work, so long as it is in the same format and with the exact same content and its origin is acknowledged]

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