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There are many reports about children being recruiting into armed forces in a few different places, eg here<\/a> and\u00a0here.<\/a>\u00a0Image above:\u00a0Child Soldier in the Ivory Coast<\/i>,\u00a0Gilbert G. Groud<\/a>, 2007<\/p>\n To Be Done<\/strong><\/p>\n a monologue\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n begging from the poor the shop is steady or years spent driving myself to rent my butt to the first come oligarch what a blank hand to be dealt but too good to refuse trades to learn all the loot you can carry listen kid who’re you calling kid no epitaph for the living when sunset explodes There are many reports about children being recruiting into armed forces in a few different places, eg here and\u00a0here.\u00a0Image above:\u00a0Child Soldier in the Ivory Coast,\u00a0Gilbert G. Groud,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":716,"featured_media":17451,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/716"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
with a broken bowl
and a lost name<\/p>\n
the aunts all say
but it sweats too much <\/p>\n
half blind and literate
for a degree in bankruptcy<\/p>\n
with more money than immunity
I’m not a disease to supplement his collection <\/p>\n
with nothing up my ragged sleeve
‘slave armies’ say the aunts<\/p>\n
regular meals a uniform
to cover my shredded past<\/p>\n
drought creation
manufacturing famine<\/p>\n
free wrap-round sex
consensuality a dead god’s oracle <\/p>\n
or I’ll leave you holding the babies
weighed down by their outsize weapons <\/p>\n
learning to dodge
overdrones with their droppings<\/p>\n
and my fabric shatters to bone meal
in some forgotten corner forever nowhere
my image will be everywhere
high resolution on screened sites
cruised by medianauts round the clock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"